Something I've Been Meaning To Tell You

Zusatztext “Munro! the hugely gifted chronicler! is fast becoming one of the world’s great totemic writers. . . . Each short story is a mansion of many rooms.” – The New York Times Book Review “How honest and how lovely. . . . A spellbinding tour through a world of love! menace and surprise. . . . [Munro] is a writer of enormous gifts and perception.” – Los Angeles Times “Wonderful. . . . A sheer pleasure.” – Seattle Post-Intelligencer “A rich exploration of womanhood. . . . A more supple! honest! sensitive and sympathetic imagination would be hard to find among writers of fiction today.” – Ms. “Masterful . . . proves beyond question Alice Munro’s trenchant ability to capture the essence of personality in the vagaries of human impulses. . . . It is hard to imagine a perception more acute.” – Houston Post 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 is the author of thirteen collections of stories—including Dear Life, Runaway , and Too Much Happiness —as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women . Among the many awards and prizes she received are three Governor General’s Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes in Canada; the Rea Award; the Lannan Literary Award; the National Book Critics Circle Award; and the International Booker Prize. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker , The Atlantic , The Paris Review , and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Alice Munro died in 2024. Klappentext WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 In the thirteen stories in her remarkable second collection, Alice Munro demonstrates the precise observation, straightforward prose style, and masterful technique that led no less a critic than John Updike to compare her to Chekhov. The sisters, mothers and daughters, aunts, grandmothers, and friends in these stories shimmer with hope and love, anger and reconciliation, as they contend with their histories and their present, and what they can see of the future. Something I've Been Meaning To Tell You "Anyway he knows how to fascinate the women," said Et to Char. She could not tell if Char went paler, hearing this, because Char was pale in the first place as anybody could get. She was like a ghost now, with her hair gone white. But still beautiful, she couldn't lose it. "No matter to him the age or the size," Et pressed on. "It's natural to him as breathing, I guess. I only hope the poor things aren't taken in by it." "I wouldn't worry," Char said. The day before, Et had taken Blaikie Noble up on his invitation to go along on one of his tours and listen to his spiel. Char was asked too, but of course she didn't go. Blaikie Noble ran a bus. The bottom part of it was painted red and the top part was striped, to give the effect of an awning. On the side was painted: LAKESHORE TOURS, INDIAN GRAVES, LIMESTONE GARDENS, MILLIONAIRE'S MANSI...

List of contents

Something I ve Been Meaning To Tell You

Material

How I Met My Husband

Walking on Water

Forgiveness in Families

Tell Me Yes or No

The Found Boat

Executioners

Marrakesh

The Spanish Lady

Winter Wind

Memorial

The Ottawa Valley

Report

Munro, the hugely gifted chronicler, is fast becoming one of the world s great totemic writers. . . . Each short story is a mansion of many rooms. The New York Times Book Review

How honest and how lovely. . . . A spellbinding tour through a world of love, menace and surprise. . . . [Munro] is a writer of enormous gifts and perception. Los Angeles Times

Wonderful. . . . A sheer pleasure. Seattle Post-Intelligencer

A rich exploration of womanhood. . . . A more supple, honest, sensitive and sympathetic imagination would be hard to find among writers of fiction today. Ms.

Masterful . . . proves beyond question Alice Munro s trenchant ability to capture the essence of personality in the vagaries of human impulses. . . . It is hard to imagine a perception more acute. Houston Post

Product details

• Authors: Alice Munro
• Publisher: Vintage USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 12.10.2004
• EAN: 9780375707483
• ISBN: 978-0-375-70748-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 205 mm x 15 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS; Vintage International
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature