Book
Family furnishings : selected stories, 1995-2014
Record details
- ISBN: 9780771061202 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xii, 620 pages ; 25 cm
- Publisher: Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, [2014]
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | The Love of a good woman -- Jakarta -- The children stay -- My mother's dream -- Hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage -- Family furnishings -- Post and beam -- The bear came over the mountain -- The view from Castle Rock -- Working for a living -- Hired girl -- Home -- Runaway -- Soon -- Passion -- Dimensions -- Wood -- Child's play -- Too much happiness -- To reach Japan -- Amundsen -- The train -- The eye -- Dear life. |
| Awards Note: | Nobel Prize in literature. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Short stories, Canadian |
| Genre: | Short stories. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Bowen Island Public Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Bowen Island Public Library | F MUN (Text) | 30947000472841 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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From the recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature -- perhaps our most beloved author -- a new selection of her peerless short fiction, gathered from the collections of the last two decades, a companion volume toSelected Stories (1968-1994).
By all accounts, no Nobel Prize in recent years has garnered the enthusiastic reception that Alice Munro's has, and in its wake, her reputation and readership has skyrocketed worldwide. Now,Family Furnishings will bring us twenty-five of her most accomplished, most powerfully affecting stories, most of them set in the territory she has so brilliantly made her own: the small towns and flatlands of southwestern Ontario. Subtly honed with the author's hallmark precision, grace, and compassion, these stories illuminate the ordinary but quite extraordinary particularity in the lives of men, women, and children as they discover sex, fall in love, part, quarrel, head out into the unknown, suffer defeat, and find a way to be in the world.
As the Nobel Prize presentation speech reads in part: "Reading one of Alice Munro's texts is like watching a cat walk across a laid dinner table. A brief short story can often cover decades, summarizing a life, as she moves deftly between different periods. No wonder Alice Munro is often able to say more in thirty pages than an ordinary novelist is capable of in three hundred. She is a virtuoso of the elliptical and...the master of the contemporary short story."
