These dazzling and utterly satisfying stories explore varieties and degrees of love - filial, platonic, sexual, parental, and imagined - in the lives of apparently ordinary folk.
'Complete, complex, and brilliantly structured' Daily Telegraph
In fact, Munro's characters pulse with idiosyncratic life. Under the polished surface of these unsentimental dispatches from the small-town and rural front lies a strong undertow of violence and sexuality, repressed until something snaps, with extraordinary force in some of the stories, sadly and strangely in others.
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009
| ISBN: | 9780099741312 |
| Publication date: | 7th November 1996 |
| Author: | Alice Munro |
| Publisher: | Vintage an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 309 pages |
| Genres: |
Shorter Reads Modern and Contemporary Fiction Narrative theme: Love and relationships |