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A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994 (Vintage International) Kindle Edition

by Alice Munro (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
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A New York Times Editors’ Choice Book

Spanning almost thirty years and settings that range from big cities to small towns and farmsteads of rural Canada, this magnificent collection brings together twenty-eight stories by a writer of unparalleled wit, generosity, and emotional power. In A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968–1994, Alice Munro makes lives that seem small unfold until they are revealed to be as spacious as prairies and locates the moments of love and betrayal, desire and forgiveness, that change those lives forever.
 
A traveling salesman during the Depression takes his children with him on an impromptu visit to a former girlfriend. A poor girl steels herself to marry a rich fiancé she can’t quite manage to love. An abandoned woman tries to choose between the opposing pleasures of seduction and solitude. To read these stories is to succumb to the spell of a true narrative sorcerer, a writer who enchants her readers utterly even as she restores them to their truest selves.
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“Heart-stopping, utterly beautiful. . . . One of the finest contemporary story writers in the English language.” —Newsday

“She has quietly emerged as one of our greatest living writers. . . . Munro has an unerring talent for uncovering the extraordinary in the ordinary.” —Newsweek

“Her stories are like few others. One must go back to Tolstoy and Chekhov . . . for comparable largeness.” —John Updike, The New York Times Book Review
 
“Makes one believe anew in fiction’s power to transfigure.” —The Washington Post

"A wonderful sampling of vintage Munro. . . . For those who have never read her, there is no better place to begin. And for those long familiar with her writing, there remain surprises and rediscoveries." —San Francisco Chronicle
 
"She seeks to evoke the mysteries of real life and she succeeds brilliantly." —Los Angeles Times
 
"[A] literary sensation . . . told with such perfect pitch that the results are stunning." —USA Today
 
"Meaty stories about love, marriage, discontent, divorce, betrayal, impulsive passion, second thoughts, deaths, even murder—stories with plenty of drama and surprise as well as reflection and meditation." —Wall Street Journal
 
"An entire world caught in the amber of memory. [The stories] have a quality of folk art about them—its patient amplitude, sly humor, and hard materiality." —Village Voice
 
"A rare pleasure . . . rich and complex . . . an excellent one-volume introduction to her work." —Boston Book Review
 
"Luminous.... Munro's stories ride on tone and feeling: Merely summarizing one is like describing a villa by holding up its doorbell." —Vogue
 
"The collection of the year. Ήere,' as Dryden said of Chaucer, 'is God's plenty." —Kirkus Reviews

About the Author

Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published thirteen collections of stories and a novel. During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards, including two Giller Prizes, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Man Booker International Prize. In 2013 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s Magazine, The Paris Review, Granta, and many other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B015LZ04QS
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage (October 6, 2015)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 6, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2071 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 688 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 85 ratings

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Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published eleven previous books.During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including the W.H. Smith Prize, the National Book Circle Critics Award, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, the Lannan Literary Award, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and the Rea Award for the Short Story. In Canada, she has won the Governor General's Award, the Giller Prize, the Trillium Book Award, and the Libris Award.Alice Munro and her husband divide their time between Clinton, Ontario, and Comox, British Columbia.

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5.0 out of 5 stars She is utterly fantastic. I am so honored to have studied her ...
Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2018
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Read Alice Munro for the first time for an English seminar. She is utterly fantastic. I am so honored to have studied her work. Both volumes are excellent, and worth reading through. Give her thought, give her time. She can discuss the simply and seemingly unimportant in ways that are almost hypnotic. Many of her stories are wildly honest and realistic, and full of reflection.
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Kevin Z
5.0 out of 5 stars Nobel worthy
Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2019
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Master of plots, sentences, and the English language. Totally deserves a Nobel! In some ways better than Chekhov.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good
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Its good
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Casi
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting
Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2018
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I have been enjoying the short stories. A bit confusing until you realize that the characters weave through the different stories but not always consecutive ones.
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Tootie
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2016
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Another Alice Munro treasure for my library. Thank You, Alice!
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Yossi
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2017
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A short story master
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kenneth c slavney
4.0 out of 5 stars no-one write as interesting short story even if they are rather long as Alice Munro
Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2019
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These stories are connected but not in a usual way which makes them more interesting
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Robert P. Brown
5.0 out of 5 stars Exquisite and Wonderful
Reviewed in Canada on February 11, 2017
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Of all Alice Munro`s contemporary short story writers, Cheever, Updike, Brodkey, Carver, Dubus, et al, she is the only one to have received the Nobel Prize for Literature. (Although having ignored Updike and so far Roth, while awarding it to Bob Dylan, one has to wonder at the prize`s current worth.)

This twenty eight story collection covers her early period from 1968 to 1994. Many of these stories, particularly the latter ones, first appeared in the "New Yorker" magazine, which is interesting given their Canadian locale. They are not filled with action, not Christie mysteries nor O Henry surprises, but rather simple events in ordinary lives, poignant, eloquent, humorous, sometimes painful, sometimes pleasurable, to which most of us can relate.

Followed by, "Family Furnishings, Stories From 1995 to 2014." Munro`s exquisite writing makes for wonderful reading.
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joan harcourt
5.0 out of 5 stars Alice Munro's short stories can't be beat
Reviewed in Canada on December 21, 2020
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I read every story in this collection three times and with each re-reading found more to admire and to ponder over. It's no wonder Munro won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Reviewed in Canada on September 18, 2017
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deserving of her nobel prize
wonderful writer
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