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Family furnishings : selected stories, 1995-2014 Cover Image Book

Family furnishings : selected stories, 1995-2014

Munro, Alice 1931-2024 (Author). Munro, Alice 1931-2024 Love of a good woman (Short story) (Added Author).

Summary: "From the recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature-perhaps our most beloved author-a new selection of her peerless short fiction, gathered from the collections of the last two decades, a companion volume to Selected Stories (1968-1994). By all accounts, no Nobel Prize in recent years has garnered the enthusiastic reception that Alice Munro's has, and in its wake, her reputation and readership has skyrocketed worldwide. Now, Family Furnishings will bring us twenty-five of her most accomplished, most powerfully affecting stories, most of them set in the territory she has so brilliantly made her own: the small towns and flatlands of southwestern Ontario. Subtly honed with the author's hallmark precision, grace, and compassion, these stories illuminate the ordinary but quite extraordinary particularity in the lives of men, women, and children as they discover sex, fall in love, part, quarrel, head out into the unknown, suffer defeat, find a way to be in the world. As the Nobel Prize presentation speech reads in part: "Reading one of Alice Munro's texts is like watching a cat walk across a laid dinner table. A brief short story can often cover decades, summarizing a life, as she moves deftly between different periods. No wonder Alice Munro is often able to say more in thirty pages than an ordinary novelist is capable of in three hundred. She is a virtuoso of the elliptical and ... the master of the contemporary short story.""--

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781101874103
  • ISBN: 1101874104
  • ISBN: 9781101872352
  • ISBN: 1101872357
  • Physical Description: print
    xii, 620 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
Love of a good woman -- Jakarta -- Children stay -- My mother's dream -- Hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage -- Family furnishings -- Post and beam -- Bear came over the mountain -- Runaway -- Soon -- Passion -- View from Castle Rock -- Working for a living -- Hired girl -- Home -- Dimensions -- Wood -- Child's play -- Too much happiness -- To reach Japan -- Amundsen -- Train -- Eye -- Dear life.

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Subject:
Ontario, Southwestern Fiction
Genre:
Short stories.
Fiction.

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  • 25 of 27 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 0 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

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Swansboro Branch Library FIC MUNRO (Text) 36015001106869 Adult Fiction Checked out 08/10/2026
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