Selected Stories

Munro is a great realist, and her powers come from her sense of the way in which communities – especially small, socially anxious, limited ones – construct and guard their reality. -- James Wood * London Review of Books *
One of the most esteemed writers in the world... Few writers capture the moral ambiguities, murkiness, messiness - and joy - of relationships with as much empathy and grace as Munro... An outstanding showcase for Munro's scrupulous, humane, unnervingly perceptive vision * Guardian *
Her work is practically perfect. Any writer has to gawk when reading her because her work is very subtle and precise -- Jane Smiley
The best short story writer alive... Munro can pack more into one of her stories - more subtlety, more grace, more tender twists of the human heart - than many novelists do in a lifetime's oeuvre * Independent *
One of the world's best living short-story writers... To say that she has made the short story her own and reinvigorated it somehow falls short - she has reinvented it * Observer *
Alice Munro! Now that's writing -- Margaret Atwood
That Munro is a great writer of short stories should go without saying. She is also one of the two or three best writers of fiction (of any length) now alive * Sunday Times *
This superb collection...confirms Munro's place as the laureate of thwarted passion - and quite possibly the greatest short-story writer at work today * Daily Telegraph *