Celebrating Alice Munro, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature
Thursday, Oct 24, 2013 at 4:57pm
On October 10th, Canadian author Alice Munro was announced as the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
This is a historic event because Ms. Munro is the first Canadian ever to have won a Nobel Prize in literature. On a more personal level, the win is notable for Ms. Munro because this year, at the age of 82, she announced her retirement from writing. Dear Life, according to the author, will be her last book.
As with any Canadian award-winning author, we are exceptionally proud of Ms. Munro and her recent honour. Ms. Munro is a wise and magnificent writer, and her award was well deserved.
If you're curious to read any of Munro's books, McNally Robinson proudly carries them all. Please contact your nearest McNally Robinson bookstore to check availability or to request a copy.
Also be sure to check out some videos of Ms. Munro, including this rare candid interview:
There is also this video of Munro being interviewed about her book, Too Much Happiness, at the International Festival of Authors in 2009.
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Dear Life
- Alice Munro 
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The fourteen stories in this brilliant collection show Alice Munro coming home to southwestern Ontario, with Toronto looming on the horizon. Even "To Reach Japan," where a Vancouver mother takes her young daughter across the country by train, ends in Toronto. On that journey, different kinds of passion produce surprises, both on the journey and at its end.
The range of storytellers is astonishing, as we hear the young voices of women recalling their teenage years and the equally convincing voice of an old woman fighting Alzheimer's. Margaret Atwood once shrewdly noted that "pushing the sexual boundaries is distinctly thrilling for many a Munro woman," and very few of these stories deal with men and women in sedate, conventional domestic settings.
Munro admirers will see that these stories are shorter than many in her recent collections, but they have all the sharpness, accessibility, and power of her earlier work, and they are--as always--full of "real" people. The final four works ("not quite stories") bring the author home, literally. She writes: "I believe they are the first and last--and the closest--things I have to say about my own life."
Too Much Happiness
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Brilliantly paced, lit with sparks of danger and underlying menace, these are dazzling, provocative stories about Svengali men and the radical women who outmanoeuvre them, about destructive marriages and curdled friendships, about mothers and sons, about moments that change or haunt a life. Alice Munro takes on complex, even harrowing emotions and events, and renders them into stories that surprise, amaze, and shed light on the unpredictable ways we accommodate what happens in our lives.
Munro's unsettling stories turn lives into art, and expand our world and our understanding of the strange workings of the human heart.
Something I've Been Meaning To Tell You
- Alice Munro , David A Richards
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"Alice Munro is one of the great story writers. . . . This collection of stories empathically, wondrously proves it."
--David Adams Richards
In the thirteen rich stories that make up Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You, Alice Munro demonstrates the precise observation, straightforward prose style, and masterful technique that have won her comparisons to Chekhov. Exploring the mysteries, dangers, joys, and bewilderment in the lives of ordinary girls and women, Munro tells of sisters, mothers and daughters, aunts, grandmothers, and friends who shimmer with hope and love, anger and reconciliation, as they contend with their histories and their present, and what they can see of the future.
Runaway
- Alice Munro
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Winner of the 2004 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
Winner of the 2004 Giller Prize.
The incomparable Alice Munro’s bestselling and rapturously acclaimed Runaway is a book of extraordinary stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises. In Munro’s hands, the people she writes about—women of all ages and circumstances, and their friends, lovers, parents, and children—become as vivid as our own neighbours. It is her miraculous gift to make these stories as real and unforgettable as our own.
