Covering the first half of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro's career these are some of the best
most touching and powerful short stories ever written. 'Munro can pack more into one of her
stories - more subtlety more grace more tender twists of the human heart - than many
novelists do' Independent This first-ever selection of Alice Munro's stories sums up her
genius. Her territory is the secrets that cackle beneath the façade of everyday lives the pain
and promises loves and fears of apparently ordinary men and women whom she renders
extraordinary and unforgettable. This volume brings together the best of Munro's stories from
1968 through to 1994. The second selected volume of her stories 1995-2009 is also published by
Vintage Classics. 'Few writers capture the moral ambiguities murkiness messiness - and joy
- of relationships with as much empathy and grace as Munro' Guardian Winner of the Nobel
Prize in Literature Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009
