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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100307264866

ISBN-139780307264862

eBay Product ID (ePID)52633502

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Book TitleCarried Away : a Personal Selection of Stories; Introduction by Margaret Atwood

Number of Pages608 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicContemporary Women, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary

Publication Year2006

GenreFiction

AuthorAlice Munro

Book SeriesEveryman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight22.3 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width5.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2006-043585

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"Munro stands as one of the living colossi of the modern short story, and her Chekhovian realism, her keen psychological insight, her instinctive feel for the emotional arithmetic of domestic life have indelibly stamped contemporary writing." -NEW YORK TIMES "In Alice Munro's hands, the smallest moments contain the central truths of a lifetime." -MACLEAN'S "Alice Munro has a strong claim to being the best fiction writer now working in North America." -NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "Captivating . . . Munro does what most writers dream of doing and succeeds at it, page after page, story after story, collection after collection." -THE OREGONIAN "From a markedly finite number of essential components, Munro rather miraculously spins out countless permutations of desire and despair, attenuated hopes and cloudbursts of epiphany . . . Every one of these women is different, and that is the wonder of Alice Munro." -THE VILLAGE VOICE "Alice Munro is among the major writers of English fiction of our time . . . In Munro's work, grace abounds, but it is strangely disguised: nothing can be predicted. Emotions erupt. Preconceptions crumble. Surprises proliferate. Astonishments leap out. Malicious acts can have positive consequences. Salvation arrives when least expected, and in peculiar forms." -from the Introduction by Margaret Atwood

Dewey Decimal813/.54

Table Of ContentIntroduction by Margaret Atwood Select Bibliography Chronology Royal Beatings The Beggar Maid The Turkey Season The Moons of Jupiter The Progress of Love Miles City, Montana Friend of My Youth Meneseteung Differently Carried Away The Albanian Virgin A Wilderness Station Vandals Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage Save the Reaper Runaway The Bear Came Over the Mountain

SynopsisA dazzling selection of seventeen stories from Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro--featuring an Introduction by Margaret Atwood "Munro stands as one of the living colossi of the modern short story, and her Chekhovian realism, her keen psychological insight, her instinctive feel for the emotional arithmetic of domestic life have indelibly stamped contemporary writing."-- The New York Times The stories brought together in Carried Away span a quarter century, drawn from Alice Munro's earlier works. Here are such favorites as "Royal Beatings" in which a young girl, her father, and stepmother release the tension of their circumstances in a ritual of punishment and reconciliation; "Friend of My Youth" in which a woman comes to understand that her difficult mother is not so very different from herself; and "The Albanian Virgin," a romantic tale of capture and escape in Central Europe that may or may not be true but that nevertheless comforts the hearer, who is on a desperate adventure of her own. Munro's incomparable empathy for her characters, the depth of her understanding of human nature, and the grace and surprise of her narrative add up to a richly layered and capacious fiction. Like the World War I soldier in the title story, whose letters from the front to a small-town librarian he doesn't know change her life forever, Munro's unassuming characters insinuate themselves in our hearts and take permanent hold., A dazzling selection of stories- 17 favorites picked by the author- ranging across her distinguished career., (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) "Carried Away" is a dazzling selection of stories-seventeen favorites chosen by the author from across her distinguished career. Alice Munro has been repeatedly hailed as one of our greatest living writers, a reputation that has been growing for years. The stories brought together here span a quarter century, drawn from some of her earliest books, "The Beggar Maid "and "The Moons of Jupiter," through her recent best-selling collection, "Runaway." Here are such favorites as "Royal Beatings" in which a young girl, her father, and stepmother release the tension of their circumstances in a ritual of punishment and reconciliation; "Friend of My Youth" in which a woman comes to understand that her difficult mother is not so very different from herself; and "The Love of a Good Woman," in which, when an old crime resurfaces, a woman has to choose whether to believe in the man she intends to marry. Munro's incomparable empathy for her characters, the depth of her understanding of human nature, and the grace and surprise of her narrative add up to a richly layered and capacious fiction. Like the World War I soldier in the title story, whose letters from the front to a small-town librarian he doesn't know change her life forever, Munro's unassuming characters insinuate themselves in our hearts and take permanent hold., WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE(R) IN LITERATURE 2013 Carried Away is a dazzling selection of stories-seventeen favorites chosen by the author from across her distinguished career. With an Introduction by Margaret Atwood. Alice Munro has been repeatedly hailed as one of our greatest living writers, a reputation that has been growing for years. The stories brought together here span a quarter century, drawn from some of her earliest books, The Beggar Maid and The Moons of Jupiter, through her recent best-selling collection, Runaway. Here are such favorites as "Royal Beatings" in which a young girl, her father, and stepmother release the tension of their circumstances in a ritual of punishment and reconciliation; "Friend of My Youth" in which a woman comes to understand that her difficult mother is not so very different from herself; and "The Albanian Virgin," a romantic tale of capture and escape in Central Europe that may or may not be true but that nevertheless comforts the hearer, who is on a desperate adventure of her own. Munro's incomparable empathy for her characters, the depth of her understanding of human nature, and the grace and surprise of her narrative add up to a richly layered and capacious fiction. Like the World War I soldier in the title story, whose letters from the front to a small-town librarian he doesn't know change her life forever, Munro's unassuming characters insinuate themselves in our hearts and take permanent hold.

LC Classification NumberPR9199.3.M8A6 2006