Friend of My Youth The Progress of Love The Moons of Jupiter The Beggar Maid Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You Lives of Girls and Women Dance of the Happy Shades Alice Munro Open Secrets Alice Munro is the author of seven previous books: a novel, Lives of Girls and Women, and six collections of stories-Dance of the Happy Shades, Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You, The Beggar Maid, The Moons of Jupiter, The Progress of Love, and Friend of My Youth.

and turns them into something uncanny and unnerving.' - N e w Republic Also by Alice Munro. As always, she captures the exact pitch of a tiny world.' -Los Angeles 'Marvelous Times Book Review When Munro is writing at her best, she takes the elements of ordinary life. Her sense of time, with its power to turn lives upside down, gives her stories elegiac depth.' -Entertainment Weekly ' L o n g after her books end, Alice Munro's characters live on in the mind like cranky, cheek-pinching relatives from childhood. Munro's prickly humor gives her saddest tales a surprising gaiety. lucid, compelling and full of surprise.' - W a l l Street Journal 'Only Alice Munro can resurrect the whole Canadian north woods in brilliant, unforgettable short stories. Munro has mastered with virtuosic skill.' -The New York Times 'A clairvoyant sense of assurance.

quick-paced narratives that magically unfurl into dense, novel-like examinations of people's entire lives. Acclaim for Alice Munro's Open Secrets 'She is our Chekhov, and is going to outlast most of her contemporaries.' -Cynthia Ozick 'Sparkling.

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