Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You
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A "masterful" (Houston Post) collection of stories from Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro
"A spellbinding tour through a world of love, menace, and surprise . . . Munro] is a writer of enormous gifts and perception."--Los Angeles Times The sisters, mothers and daughters, aunts, grandmothers, and friends in these thirteen stories, "a rich exploration of womanhood" (Ms.), shimmer with hope and love, anger and reconciliation, as they content with their histories and their present, and what they can see of the future. In her remarkable second collection, Alice Munro demonstrates the precise observation, straightforward prose style, and masterful technique hailed by John Updike, who wrote in the New York Times Book Review that "one must go back to Tolstoy and Chekhov . . . for comparable largeness."
"A spellbinding tour through a world of love, menace, and surprise . . . Munro] is a writer of enormous gifts and perception."--Los Angeles Times The sisters, mothers and daughters, aunts, grandmothers, and friends in these thirteen stories, "a rich exploration of womanhood" (Ms.), shimmer with hope and love, anger and reconciliation, as they content with their histories and their present, and what they can see of the future. In her remarkable second collection, Alice Munro demonstrates the precise observation, straightforward prose style, and masterful technique hailed by John Updike, who wrote in the New York Times Book Review that "one must go back to Tolstoy and Chekhov . . . for comparable largeness."
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0375707484
ISBN13:9780375707483
Release Date:October 2004
Publisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.48 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.2" x 8.1"
Customer Reviews
1 customer rating | 1 review
Rated 4 starsSolid short stories
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A few of these stories are amazing, the title story to name one. All the others are at least good.
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