Her best stories are heartbreaking, breathtaking, smack-you-across-the-head page-turners… where almost nothing happens. I honestly can’t think of any other authors who’ve ever worked such magic from the drab stuff of everyday life. But if her plots are easy to stereotype then her writing is inimitable. Ever feel like something big nearly happened to you and you’ll never properly get over it? Then you might just live in an Alice Munro story.Īdmittedly, that’s an oversimplification: Munro also has plenty in store for fans of murders, drownings, buried family secrets and fateful meetings on cross-continental trains. Second, the offputting book covers that make some of the editions look like bad airport fiction, which couldn’t be further from the truth that lies inside. Third is the fact that a lot of her work retreads similar territory: mostly, women being shoved into the ground by time, fate, small towns and smaller minds. First up, the sheer volume: more than 150 stories across fourteen collections since the late ’60s. There are a few things that make it difficult to know where to start with Munro’s catalogue. Loosely stringing together events, coincidences, fateful decisions and missed connections, often across decades, her stories combine everyday drudgery and occasional flashes of emotion with enough intensity to sear your heart like a juicy steak. Octogenarian, Canadian and one of only 15 women to have won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Munro writes very, very good short stories: micro-novels of rural or suburban life, occasionally linked by recurring characters or places.
Well, if you’re up for exploring that feeling in more depth, there’s no one who articulates it better than Alice Munro. One of the world's best living short-story writers.Stuck is something everyone is feeling right now – a weird blend of frustration, claustrophobia and longing for what might have happened if this hadn’t. Munro can pack more into one of her stories - more subtlety, more grace, more tender twists of the human heart - than many novelists do in a lifetime's oeuvre Jane Smiley The best short story writer alive. Any writer has to gawk when reading her because her work is very subtle and precise An outstanding showcase for Munro's scrupulous, humane, unnervingly perceptive vision Read more - of relationships with as much empathy and grace as Munro.
Few writers capture the moral ambiguities, murkiness, messiness - and joy.
One of the most esteemed writers in the world. Munro is a great realist, and her powers come from her sense of the way in which communities – especially small, socially anxious, limited ones – construct and guard their reality.
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