What is the important thing? What do you want us to pay attention to? Think." What does Alice Munro want us to pay attention to in her Selected Stories? Everything, really, and so her narratives loop back on themselves, jump decades backward and forward in time, introduce characters who later drop out of the action, and generally break every rule in the short-story-writing book. The short story is alive and well in Canada, where most of these 15 tales originate like fresh winds from the North."Too many things," a creative writing instructor tells the narrator of "Differently." "Too many things going on at the same time also too many people.
Munro's stories are "well-made," but they are no more than journeymen's work. 'Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You' (1974) Witty, subtle, passionate, this book of stories is exceptionally knowledgeable about the content and movement of individual human feeling. Munro writes stories that have the density - moral, emotional, sometimes historical - of other writers' novels. The stories in this impressive new collection by Alice Munro are concerned, like her earlier tales, with what she once called "the progress of love." Munro creates slim, quick-paced narratives that magically unfurl into dense, novel-like examinations of people's entire lives. Munro's stories are characterized by ambition: a well-meditated complexity and multiplicity of plot, an intense clarity of phrase and image, an exceptional psychological searchingness and honesty. The characters in these stories are poised on the brink of a changing world. In this collection of nine new stories, where one has been is often as important as where one is going. 'Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage' (2001) A new collection ranges even farther.Ī career-spanning grab bag of short stories from Alice Munro. 'The View From Castle Rock: Stories' (2006)Īlice Munros stories often explore the human and natural history of Ontario.
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