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Carried Away: A Selection of Stories: Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics

Autor Alice Munro Margaret Atwood
en Limba Engleză Hardback – sep 2006
 
Carried Away is a dazzling selection of storiesߝseventeen favorites chosen by the author from across her distinguished career.
 
Alice Munro has been repeatedly hailed as one of our greatest living writers, a reputation that has been growing for years. The stories brought together here span a quarter century, drawn from some of her earliest books, The Beggar Maid and The Moons of Jupiter, through her recent best-selling collection, Runaway.
 
Here are such favorites as “Royal Beatings” in which a young girl, her father, and stepmother release the tension of their circumstances in a ritual of punishment and reconciliation; “Friend of My Youth” in which a woman comes to understand that her difficult mother is not so very different from herself; and “The Love of a Good Woman,” in which, when an old crime resurfaces, a woman has to choose whether to believe in the man she intends to marry.
 
Munro’s incomparable empathy for her characters, the depth of her understanding of human nature, and the grace and surprise of her narrative add up to a richly layered and capacious fiction. Like the World War I soldier in the title story, whose letters from the front to a small-town librarian he doesn’t know change her life forever, Munro’s unassuming characters insinuate themselves in our hearts and take permanent hold.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780307264862
ISBN-10: 0307264866
Pagini: 559
Dimensiuni: 135 x 208 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.62 kg
Editura: Everyman's Library
Seria Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics


Recenzii

“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 stamped contemporary writing.”
—NEW YORK TIMES

“In Alice Munro’s hands, the smallest moments contain the central truths of a lifetime.”
—MACLEAN’S

“Alice Munro has a strong claim to being the best fiction writer now working in North America.”
—NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

“Captivating . . . Munro does what most writers dream of doing and succeeds at it, page after page, story after story, collection after collection.”
—THE OREGONIAN

“From a markedly finite number of essential components, Munro rather miraculously spins out countless permutations of desire and despair, attenuated hopes and cloudbursts of epiphany . . . Every one of these
women is different, and that is the wonder of Alice Munro.”
—THE VILLAGE VOICE

“Alice Munro is among the major writers of English fiction of our time . . . In Munro’s work, grace abounds, but it is strangely disguised: nothing can be predicted. Emotions erupt. Preconceptions crumble. Surprises proliferate. Astonishments leap out. Malicious acts can have positive consequences. Salvation arrives when least expected, and in peculiar forms.”
—from the Introduction by Margaret Atwood

Cuprins

Introduction by Margaret Atwood
Select Bibliography
Chronology

Royal Beatings
The Beggar Maid
The Turkey Season
The Moons of Jupiter
The Progress of Love
Miles City, Montana
Friend of My Youth
Meneseteung
Differently
Carried Away
The Albanian Virgin
A Wilderness Station
Vandals
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Save the Reaper
Runaway
The Bear Came Over the Mountain

Descriere

A dazzling selection of stories--17 favorites picked by the author--are collected here in one volume for the first time.

Notă biografică

Alice Munro; Introduction by Margaret Atwood