'A selection of short stories by the Nobel Prize-winning author, Alice Munro'. She is a virtuoso of the elliptical and.the master of the contemporary short story.''. No wonder Alice Munro is often able to say more in thirty pages than an ordinary novelist is capable of in three hundred.

A brief short story can often cover decades, summarizing a life, as she moves deftly between different periods. 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. 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.

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. 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. To read these stories-about a traveling salesman and his children on an impromptu journey an abandoned woman choosing between seduction and solitude-is to succumb to the spell of a writer who enchants her readers utterly even as she restores them to their truest selves.'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). In her Selected Stories, Alice Munro makes lives that seem small unfold until they are revealed to be as spacious as prairies and locates the moments of love and betrayal, desire and forgiveness, that change those lives forever. Spanning almost thirty years and settings that range from big cities to small towns and farmsteads of rural Canada, this magnificent collection brings together twenty-eight stories by a writer of unparalleled wit, generosity, and emotional power.

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