Open Secrets

Zusatztext “She is our Chekhov! and is going to outlast most of her contemporaries.” –Cynthia Ozick “Brilliant at evoking life’s diversity and unpredictability! [Alice Munro is] an unrivalled chronicler of human nature.” – The Sunday Times “An Alice Munro story zooms effortlessly through time zones! spans generations and offers up more detail and description than do many full-length contemporary novels.” – Maclean ’ s “She is the best fiction writer in North America.” – The Vancouver Sun Praise from fellow writers: “Her work felt revolutionary when I came to it! and it still does.” —Jhumpa Lahiri “She is one of the handful of writers! some living! most dead! whom I have in mind when I say that fiction is my religion.” —Jonthan Franzen “The authority she brings to the page is just lovely.” —Elizabeth Strout “She’s the most savage writer I’ve ever read! also the most tender! the most honest! the most perceptive.” —Jeffery Eugenides “Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can.”—Julian Barnes “She is a short-story writer who…reimagined what a story can do.” —Loorie Moore “There’s probably no one alive who’s better at the craft of the short story.” —Jim Shepard “A true master of the form.” —Salman Rushdie “A wonderful writer.” —Joyce Carol Oates Informationen zum Autor Alice Munro Klappentext WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 In these eight tales, Munro evokes the devastating power of old love suddenly recollected. She tells of vanished schoolgirls and indentured frontier brides and an eccentric recluse who, in the course of one surpassingly odd dinner party, inadvertently lands herself a wealthy suitor from exotic Australia. And Munro shows us how one woman's romantic tale of capture and escape in the high Balkans may end up inspiring another woman who is fleeing a husband and lover in present-day Canada. " Open Secrets is a book that dazzles with its faith in language and in life."-- New York Times Book Review Carried Away LETTERS In the dining room of the Commercial Hotel, Louisa opened the letter that had arrived that day from overseas. She ate steak and potatoes, her usual meal, and drank a glass of wine. There were a few travellers in the room, and the dentist who ate there every night because he was a widower. He had shown an interest in her in the beginning but had told her he had never before seen a woman touch wine or spirits. "It is for my health," said Louisa gravely. The white tablecloths were changed every week and in the meantime were protected by oilcloth mats. In winter, the dining room smelled of these mats wiped by a kitchen rag, and of coal fumes from the furnace, and beef gravy and dried potatoes and onions-a smell not unpleasant to anybody coming in hungry from the cold. On each table was a little cruet stand with the bottle of brown sauce, the bottle of tomato sauce, and the pot of horseradish. The letter was addressed to "The Librarian, Carstairs Public Library, Carstairs, Ontario." It was dated six weeks before-January 4, 1917. Perhaps you will be surprised to hear from a person you don't know and that doesn't remember your name. I hope you are still the same Librarian though enough time has gone by that you could have moved on. What has landed me here in Hospital is not too serious. I see worse all around me and get my mind off of all that by picturing things and wondering for instance if you are still there in the Library. If you are the one I mean, you are about of medium size or perhaps not quite, with light brownish hair. You came a few months before it was time for me to go in the Army following on Miss Tamblyn who had been there since I first became a user aged nine or ten. In her time the books were ...

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Praise for Alice Munro

Her work felt revolutionary when I came to it, and it still does. Jhumpa Lahiri

One of the great short story writers not just of our time but of any time. The New York Times Book Review

Alice Munro is not only revered, she is cherished. The New York Review of Books

She is one of the handful of writers, some living, most dead, whom I have in mind when I say that fiction is my religion. Jonthan Franzen

The authority she brings to the page is just lovely. Elizabeth Strout

She s the most savage writer I ve ever read, also the most tender, the most honest, the most perceptive. Jeffery Eugenides

Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can. Julian Barnes

She is a short-story writer who . . . reimagined what a story can do. Lorrie Moore

There s probably no one alive who s better at the craft of the short story. Jim Shepard

A true master of the form. Salman Rushdie

A wonderful writer. Joyce Carol Oates

Product details

• Authors: Alice Munro
• Publisher: Vintage USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.11.1995
• EAN: 9780679755623
• ISBN: 978-0-679-75562-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 202 mm x 16 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS; Vintage International; Vintage Contemporaries; Vintage International
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature