Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014 by Alice Munro (English) Paperba

Description: Family Furnishings by Alice Munro "An extraordinary collection" (San Francisco Chronicle) of twenty-four short stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro. "Superb . . . Munro is a writer to be cherished."—NPRA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Minneapolis Star TribuneA selection of Alice Munros most accomplished and powerfully affecting short fiction from 1995 to 2014, these stories encompass the fullness of human experience, from the wild exhilaration of first love (in "Passion") to the punishing consequences of leaving home ("Runaway") or ending a marriage ("The Children Stay"). And in stories that Munro has described as "closer to the truth than usual"—"Dear Life," "Working for a Living," and "Home"—we glimpse the authors own life.Subtly honed with her hallmark precision, grace, and compassion, these stories illuminate the quotidian yet astonishing particularities in the lives of men and women, parents and children, friends and lovers as they discover sex, fall in love, part, quarrel, suffer defeat, set off into the unknown, or find a way to be in the world. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Alice Munro is the author of thirteen collections of stories—including Dear Life, Runaway, and Too Much Happiness—as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women. Among the many awards and prizes she received are three Governor Generals Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes in Canada; the Rea Award; the Lannan Literary Award; the National Book Critics Circle Award; and the International Booker Prize. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Alice Munro died in 2024. Review "What a stunning, subtle and sympathetic explorer of the heart Munro is."—The Washington Post"Generations to come will relish and study Family Furnishings. . . . A superb introduction for those new to her work, and a reminder to longtime fans that Munro is a writer to be cherished."—NPR"Brilliant. . . . In the simplest of words, and with the greatest of power, she makes us see and hear an unremarkable scene we will never forget."—The New York Review of Books "Turn to just about any page and youll discover a brilliant insight into human behavior. . . . Family Furnishings reminds us that Munro is our greatest contemporary short story writer."—USA Today"[An] extraordinary collection. . . . Munro seems to have gotten hold of our own darkest feelings about the people in our lives and transformed them, gloriously, into art."—San Francisco Chronicle "The preeminent short-fiction writer of her time. . . . Astonishing. . . . Stunning. . . . Remind[s] us that fiction, at its most profound and moving, is about human endurance, which makes it very much a reflection of reality."—Los Angeles Times "Munros literary genius for the short-story form has been widely deemed incomparable. The Canadian writer captures those small moments that reverberate through ordinary lives in meticulous prose. Her economy in words fashions a language that pierces the heart."—New York Daily News "These are human stories, and great ones. . . . Nobody can tell a tale, spin a character, break a heart, the way Alice Munro can."—Minneapolis Star Tribune "Munro may have arrived at the end of her career, but her stories keep changing, as works of art tend to do. . . . Because Munros people often act unpredictably—they wind up doing things they hadnt known they were going to do and startle themselves—the stories, even on repeated readings, retain their original suspense, their sense that anything can happen."—The New York Times Book Review "If theres literary pleasure greater than reading Alice Munro, it must be rereading Alice Munro."—The Seattle Times "It is no exaggeration to state that Munros short stories are among the finest that have ever been written. Shes sure to endure alongside Poe, Hemingway and OConnor. . . . Shes that rare writer who is able to match her early career achievements and even top them."—The Dallas Morning News "A writer who slowly fashioned a house of fiction large enough for both a room of her own and all of her family furnishings—ensuring that she herself had space to maneuver while others still had plenty of space to stretch out and live. Those others include us, her very lucky readers."—The Philadelphia Inquirer "Munros stories are remarkable for their evocation of places and the people who live there, for ambiguities, their ellipses, and their deftness. Her prose is lucid: ranging from delicacy to forthright attack, sometimes witty, ironic."—The Washington Times Review Quote "What is special about Munros lifelong use and reuse of family furnishings and unremarkable local landscape? Partly it is her exceptionally thorough and dedicated mining of the same ingredients, which endlessly come up rich and fresh, seem never to be used up, and however artfully shaped, feel real. . . . And theres the heart of the magic: Excerpt from Book Too Much Happiness Many persons who have not studied mathematics confuse it with arithmetic and consider it a dry and arid science. Actually, however, this science requires great fantasy. --Sophia Kovalevsky On the first day of January, in the year 1891, a small woman and a large man are walking in the Old Cemetery, in Genoa. Both of them are around forty years old. The woman has a childishly large head, with a thicket of dark curls, and her expression is eager, faintly pleading. Her face has begun to look worn. The man is immense. He weighs 285 pounds, distributed over a large frame, and being Russian, he is often referred to as a bear, also as a Cossack. At present he is crouching over tombstones and writing in his notebook, collecting inscriptions and puzzling over abbreviations not immediately clear to him, though he speaks Russian, French, English, Italian, and has an under- standing of classical and medieval Latin. His knowledge is as expansive as his physique, and though his speciality is governmental law, he is capable of lecturing on the growth of contemporary political institutions in America, the peculiarities of society in Russia and the West, and the laws and practices of ancient empires. But he is not a pedant. He is witty and popular, at ease on various levels, and able to live a most comfortable life, due to his properties near Kharkov. He has, however, been forbidden to hold an academic post in Russia, because of being a Liberal. His name suits him. Maksim. Maksim Maksimovich Kovalevsky. The woman with him is also a Kovalevsky. She was married to a distant cousin of his, but is now a widow. She speaks to him teasingly. "You know that one of us will die," she says. "One of us will die this year." Only half listening, he asks her, Why is that? "Because we have gone walking in a graveyard on the first day of the New Year." "Indeed." "There are still a few things you dont know," she says in her pert but anxious way. "I knew that before I was eight years old." "Girls spend more time with kitchen maids and boys in the stables--I sup- pose that is why." "Boys in the stables do not hear about death?" "Not so much. Concentration is on other things." There is snow that day but it is soft. They leave melted, black footprints where theyve walked. She met him for the first time in 1888. He had come to Stockholm to advise on the foundation of a school of social sciences. Their shared nationality, going so far as a shared family name, would have thrown them together even if there was no particular attraction. She would have had a responsibility to entertain and generally take care of a fellow Liberal, unwelcome at home. But that turned out to be no duty at all. They flew at each other as if they had indeed been long-lost relatives. A torrent of jokes and questions followed, an immediate understanding, a rich gabble of Russian, as if the languages of Western Europe had been flimsy formal cages in which they had been too long confined, or paltry substitutes for true human speech. Their behavior, as well, soon overflowed the proprieties of Stockholm. He stayed late at her apartment. She went alone to lunch with him at his hotel. When he hurt his leg in a mishap on the ice, she helped him with the soaking and dressing and, what was more, she told people about it. She was so sure of herself then, and especially sure of him. She wrote a description of him to a friend, borrowing from De Musset. He is very joyful, and at the same time very gloomy-- Disagreeable neighbor, excellent comrade-- Extremely light-minded, and yet very affected-- Indignantly na Details ISBN1101872357 Author Alice Munro Short Title FAMILY FURNISHINGS Language English ISBN-10 1101872357 ISBN-13 9781101872352 Media Book Format Paperback Residence Clinton, Ontario, -CN Birth 1931 Pages 784 Series Vintage International Year 2015 Subtitle Selected Stories, 1995-2014 Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2015-09-15 NZ Release Date 2015-09-15 US Release Date 2015-09-15 UK Release Date 2015-09-15 Place of Publication New York Publisher Random House USA Inc Imprint Vintage Books DEWEY 813/.54 Audience General Publication Date 1900-01-01 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:95354979;

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