![]() ![]() 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. ![]() 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. 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. Carried Away is a dazzling selection of stories–seventeen favorites chosen by the author from across her distinguished career.Īlice Munro has been repeatedly hailed as one of our greatest living writers, a reputation that has been growing for years. ![]()
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