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Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014
Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014 | Alice Munro
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A Best Book of the Year: "San Francisco Chronicle," NPR, "Minneapolis Star Tribune" Here is a selection of Munro s most accomplished and powerfully affecting short fiction from the last two decades, a companion volume to"A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968 1994." These stories encompass the fullness of humanexperience, from thewild 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. Subtly 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."
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prowlix
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“They have a lovely life, cows. It ends, of course, in the slaughterhouse. The end is a disaster. For everybody, though, the same thing. Evil grabs us when we are sleeping; pain and disintegration lie in wait.”

My first Munro 💗

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shawnmooney
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Because Alice. ❤️❤️❤️

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MrBook
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#TBRtemptation post 8! If you're a Munro fan, you'll love this thick, heavy book from the Nobel Prize winner! Besides being a treasure trove of 25 of her short stories, it's gorgeous to behold and worthy of displaying on your coffee table. Most of the stories are set in southwestern Ontario, and they highlight the extraordinary peculiarities among common folk while resonating with universal themes beautifully rendered. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

saresmoore I can't believe I haven't bought this one yet! 7y
Leftcoastzen Yay! 7y
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Sam: "I heard about Munro when she won the Nobel Prize and wanted to check her out. This is a collection of short stories and I pretty much love all of them. Munro nails the humanity of every day situations. The complexity of people's motivations and how nothing is black or white – I really enjoy the clarity with which she presents this. Someone like Joyce uses very flowery language that can be hard to understand. This is not that kind of novel."

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Simona
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Alfrida writes for the paper, and the narrator of this short story (Family Furnishings) is a writer. It's a pitch-perfect short story, and the example for - how to write in the form of a short story, and to tell the whole novel.
... and my book of this short stories is paperback 😉

#rockinmay #paperbackwriter

Cinfhen Nicely played 👍🏻😊 7y
LeahBergen Alice Munro. 👏🏻👏🏻 7y
batsy Oh wow. Added to the list: Must. Read. More. Munro. 7y
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imajod
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So many books, so little time.