Book description
A dazzling selection of seventeen stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro—featuring an Introduction by Margaret Atwood
“Munro stands as one of the living colossi of the modern short story, and her Chekhovian realism, her keen psychological insight, her instinctive feel for the emotional arithmetic of domestic life have indelibly…
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1 author picked Carried Away as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love the fact that Alice Munro, who died recently, won the Nobel Prize, the first ever given to a writer of short stories. Munro herself chose the seventeen stories in this book, selected from across her long career.
I encountered the first, “Royal Beatings,” in a college anthology, and I was blown away by its skill and audacity. I found the last story, “The Bear Who Came Over the Mountain,” especially touching because my sister suffered from the same condition, senile dementia, as the story’s central character.
Between these bookends are fifteen other stories, equally remarkable for their variety,…
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