{"product_id":"family-furnishings-selected-stories-1995-2014-paperback","title":"Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlice Munro\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Nobel Prize winner\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003e\"\u003cb\u003eour greatest contemporary short story writer\" (\u003ci\u003eUSA Today)\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ecomes a selection of her most accomplished and powerfully affecting short stories from the last two decades.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere is a companion volume to \u003ci\u003eA Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994\u003c\/i\u003e. These stories encompass the fullness of human experience, from the wild exhilaration of first love (in \"Passion\") to the punishing consequences of leaving home (\"Runaway\") or ending a marriage (\"The Children Stay\"). And in stories that Munro has described as \"closer to the truth than usual\"--\"Dear Life,\" \"Working for a Living,\" and \"Home\"--we glimpse the author's own life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSubtly honed with her hallmark precision, grace, and compassion, these stories illuminate the quotidian yet astonishing particularities in the lives of men and women, parents and children, friends and lovers as they discover sex, fall in love, part, quarrel, suffer defeat, set off into the unknown, or find a way to be in the world.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eALICE 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 \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Magazine, The Paris Review, Granta\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 784\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461120704733,"sku":"9781101872352","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/MU9XY3ZZM25abFJxQ2pNYmxHMFE5Zz09.webp?v=1771633555","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/family-furnishings-selected-stories-1995-2014-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}