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The bestselling collection by the greatest short story writer in the world
A new selection of Alice Munro's short stories spanning her last five collections: The Love of a Good ...
Winner of the Man Booker International Prize for 2009, Alice Munro is the author of eleven collections of stories, The View from Castle Rock, and a novel, Lives of Girls and Women. She has received many awards and prizes, including three of Canada's Governor General's Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, the W.H. Smith Book Award in the UK, the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for The Beggar Maid. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She lives with her husband in Clinton, Ontario, near Lake Huron in Canada.
In this perfect new collection, each of Alice Munro's glorious stories is as satisfying and richly crafted as a novel.
'The greatest living short story writer' A. S. Byatt, Sunday Times
'Witty, subtle, passionate, The Moons of Jupiter is exceptionally knowledgeable about the content and movement - the entanglements and entailments - of individual human feeling. And the knowledge it offers ...
'Alice Munro has a strong claim to being the best fiction writer now working in North America.... She is speaking to you and to me right here, right now' Jonathan Franzen
First-ever selection of one of the world's greatest living short-story writers, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009.
These dazzling and utterly satisfying stories explore varieties and degrees of love - filial, platonic, sexual, parental and imagined - in the lives of apparently ordinary folk. In fact, Munro's ...