The moons of jupiter alice munro review11/21/2022 It’s an extraordinarily high-grade steak that just happens to be served in slices.īest story, in the category of autobiographical-seeming stories about love: “Bardon Bus,” which contains some of the most convincingly rendered emotional agony I’ve ever read.īest story, in the category of historical drama: “A Wilderness Station,” which should, with its many voices and bizarre, dramatic happenings, put to rest any notion of Munro as a predictable dispenser of affair/epiphany-type fiction.īest story, all categories: “The Beggar Maid,” which showcases, among other things, her remarkable deftness in telling stories that leap around in time. The book follows a woman named Rose all the way from her early childhood to her middle age, and never feels stretched. Published in 1977, The Beggar Maid is as close as Munro has ever come to writing a novel, but it actually does a better job than just about any novel I know of getting an entire, living human being onto the page. The Munro book to read if you’re only willing to read one but don’t like the idea of reading a literary greatest hits album: The Beggar Maid. The Munro book to read if you’re only willing to read one: Selected Stories It’s also an excuse, as if we needed one, to revisit her previous work, and to push her books on the world’s non-Munroviacs. For Alice Munro fanatics - a group in which I proudly include myself - this is, of course, wonderful news. This November, Knopf recently announced, Alice Munro will publish Dear Life: Stories, her 13th book of shorts and second since her announced “retirement” in 2006. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001) ( #9 on our Best Books of the Millennium List) The Beggar Maid (1978) (As close as Munro has ever come to writing a novel) Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You (1974) Munro has published a number of books over her long career: Munro is perhaps best represented by the various short story compilations collecting her best works:Ĭarried Away: A Selection of Stories (2006) There are an overwhelming number of choices, many of which have disconcertingly similar appearances - and, while you’re very likely to choose something delicious, there is the slight but real possibility of finding yourself stuck with, say, raspberry ganache. Those looking for an in depth introduction to Munro’s work should read Ben Dolnick’s “ A Beginner’s Guide to Alice Munro,” which he introduces thus:Ĭonsidering which of Alice Munro’s stories to read can feel something like considering what to eat from an enormous box of chocolates. She told a National Post reporter earlier this year that she’s retiring from writing. Munro, 82, is the first Canadian to take the prize. Alice Munro, called by the Nobel committee “Master of the contemporary short story,” has won the 2013 Nobel Prize for literature.
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