Fiction Short Stories (single Author)
The Progress of Love
Penguin Modern Classics Edition
- Publisher
- Penguin Group Canada
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2006
- Category
- Short Stories (single author), Literary, Family Life
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780143054979
- Publish Date
- Apr 2006
- List Price
- $21.00
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Description
With the ease and mastery that have won extraordinary acclaim for her writing, these eleven stories by Alice Munro explore the most intimate and transforming moments of experience—moments when the shape of life is set, moments of realization about the burden, the power, and the nature of love.
A divorced woman returns to her childhood home where she confronts the memory of her parents’ confounding yet deep bond. The accidental near-drowning of a child exposes the fragility of the trust between children and parents. A young man, remembering a terrifying childhood incident, wrestles with the responsibility he has always felt for his younger brother.
In these and other stories Alice Munro proves once again a sensitive and compassionate chronicler of our times. Drawing us into the most intimate corners of ordinary lives, she reveals much about ourselves, our choices, and our experiences of love.
About the authors
Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published ten previous books-Dance of the Happy Shades; Lives Of Girls And Women; Something I've Been Meaning To Tell You; Who Do You Think You Are?; The Moons Of Jupiter; The Progress Of Love; Friend of My Youth; Open Secrets; The Love of a Good Woman; and Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage-as well as Selected Stories, an anthology of stories culled from her dazzling body of work.
During her distinguished career, Munro has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including the W.H. Smith Award in the United Kingdom and, in the United States, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, the Lannan Literary Award, and the Rea Award for the Short Story.
In Canada, her prize-winning record is so extraordinary-three Governor General's Awards, two Giller Prizes (one of which was for Runaway), the Trillium Book Award, the Jubilee Prize, and the Libris Award, among many others-that it has been ironically suggested that as such a perennial winner, she no longer qualifies for new prizes. Abroad, acclaim continues to pour in. Both Runaway and Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book Award, Caribbean and Canada region, and were chosen as one of the Books of the Year by The New York Times.
Alice Munro's stories appear regularly in The New Yorker, as well as in The Atlantic Monthly, Saturday Night, and The Paris Review. She and her husband divide their time between Clinton (in “Alice Munro country”), Ontario, and Comox, British Columbia.
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Editorial Reviews
Praise for Alice Munro and The Progress of Love
"One of the foremost contemporary practitioners of the short story."
—The New York Times
"Alice Munro is a born teller of tales."
—The Washington Post
"Throughout this remarkable collection moments of insight flash from the pages like lightning, not necessarily providing answers—more likely showing the way to new questions."
—The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Dance of the Happy Shades
¿Quién te crees que eres? / Who Do You Think you are?
Danza de las sombras / Dance of the Happy Shades: and Other Stories
Who Do You Think You Are?
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Lives of Girls and Women
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Julieta (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Three Stories That Inspired the Movie
La vista desde Castle Rock / The View from Castle Rock
Escapada / Runaway
Dreams And Nightmares
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