![]() Munro flashes back to the three boys, bent on swimming, who discover Willens' car in the river. One exhibit is a box of instruments that belonged to D.M. This new collection includes 24 of her most celebrated stories, beginning with "The Love of a Good Woman," which opens with an evocative description of a small-town museum. Her work spans the 20th century, but her focus is on ordinary people (mostly in Canada) whose responses to love, lust, seeking community and facing tragedy range from magisterial to frail to vindictive. Munro distills into one story the sweep of a lifetime, with all its sorrows, disappointments and glories. The citation for Alice Munro's 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature calls her "the master of the contemporary short story" and praises her ability to "say more in thirty words than an ordinary novel is capable of in three hundred." ![]() ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Family Furnishings Subtitle Selected Stories, 1995-2014 Author Alice Munro ![]()
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