Family furnishings : selected stories, 1995-2014 / Alice Munro ; foreword by Jane Smiley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Munro, Alice, 1931-2024

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xii, 620 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.

Summary:

"From the recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature-perhaps our most beloved author-a new selection of her peerless short fiction, gathered from the collections of the last two decades, a companion volume to Selected Stories (1968-1994). By all accounts, no Nobel Prize in recent years has garnered the enthusiastic reception that Alice Munro's has, and in its wake, her reputation and readership has skyrocketed worldwide. Now, Family Furnishings will bring us twenty-five of her most accomplished, most powerfully affecting stories, most of them set in the territory she has so brilliantly made her own: the small towns and flatlands of southwestern Ontario. Sublty honed with the author's hallmark precision, grace, and compassion, these stories illuminate the ordinary but quite extraordinary particularity in the lives of men, women, and children as they discover sex, fall in love, part, quarrel, head out into the unknown, suffer defeat, find a way to be in the world. As the Nobel Prize presentation speech reads in part: "Reading one of Alice Munro's texts is like watching a cat walk across a laid dinner table. A brief short story can often cover decades, summarizing a life, as she moves deftly between different periods. No wonder Alice Munro is often able to say more in thirty pages than an ordinary novelist is capable of in three hundred. She is a virtuoso of the elliptical and...the master of the contemporary short story.""-- Provided by publisher.

"A selection of short stories by the Nobel Prize-winning author, Alice Munro"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Love of a good woman

Jakarta

The children stay

My mother's dream

Hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage

Family furnishings

Post and beam

The bear came over the mountain

The view from Castle Rock

Working for a living

Hired girl

Home

Runaway

Soon

Passion

Dimensions

Wood

Childss play

Too much happiness

To reach Japan

Amundsen

The train

The eye

Dear life.

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.

Contains:

Munro, Alice, 1931- Love of a good woman.

ISBN:

9781101874103

1101874104

9781101872352

1101872357

OCLC:

882906772

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