Book · 1996 · Fiction

Selected Stories

Name: Selected Stories
Author: Alice Munro

Vintage Books USA (Penguin Random House) · 412 pages

★ 7.7 editorial score

Munro set her stories in Ontario towns where a woman's life can turn on something said at a kitchen table. She fits more into forty pages than most novelists get into a novel.

Genre

Realism Domestic tragedy

Medium

Short stories

Subject

Small town life Marriage Women Memory

Setting

Ontario

Time

1996

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