'It is a collection that attests, once again, to Ms Munro's complete fluency in the short-story form, her emergence as one of the most eloquent and gifted writers of contemporary fiction... This is a wonderful collection of stories, beautifully written and deeply felt.' New York Times
**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** Alice Munro was born in 1931 and is the author of thirteen collections of stories, most recently Dear Life, and a novel, Lives of Girls and Women. She has received many awards and prizes, including three of Canada's Governor General's Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, the WHSmith Book Award in the UK, the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for The Beggar Maid, and has been awarded the Man Booker International Prize 2009 for her overall contribution to fiction on the world stage, and in 2013 she won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She lives with her husband in Clinton, Ontario, near Lake Huron in Canada.
Read not more than one of her stories a day, and allow them to work
their spell: they are made last
*Observer*
Alice Munro's stories, Friend of My Youth, are wonderful:
intricate, deep, full of absorbing and funny detail, and opening
into painful and tender memories with cunningly concealed skill
*Independent on Sunday*
She is our Chekhov, and is going to outlast most of her
contemporaries
*Cynthia Ozick*
Brilliant at evoking life's diversity and unpredictability...an
unrivalled chronicler of human nature under a vast span of aspects,
moods and pressures
*Sunday Times*
The particular brilliance of Alice Munro is that in range and depth
her short stories are almost novels
*Daily Telegraph*
Munro is an established author, one of the few who have mastered the art of short story writing. This fine collection contains ten stories that are all good to read. Most--but not all--are about the inhabitants of small Canadian towns. The primary characters, mainly women, have diverse relationships with their families and other unusual acquaintances. The plots are sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, but always within the realm of realism. Very seldom does anything occur that seems too ridiculous to actually have happened to somebody one knows. Most readers will find these stories entertaining and often thought-provoking. Recommended for libraries already owning Munro's previous works and also for those that may have missed her in the past. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 11/15/89.-- Mary Prokop, CEL Regional Lib., Savannah, Ga.
Read not more than one of her stories a day, and allow them to work
their spell: they are made last * Observer *
Alice Munro's stories, Friend of My Youth, are wonderful:
intricate, deep, full of absorbing and funny detail, and
opening into painful and tender memories with cunningly concealed
skill * Independent on Sunday *
She is our Chekhov, and is going to outlast most of her
contemporaries -- Cynthia Ozick
Brilliant at evoking life's diversity and
unpredictability...an unrivalled chronicler of human nature under a
vast span of aspects, moods and pressures * Sunday Times *
The particular brilliance of Alice Munro is that in range and depth
her short stories are almost novels * Daily Telegraph *
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