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Set in her native southwest Ontario, they include ''Royal Beatings'', in which a young girl, her father and her stepmother release the tension of their circumstances in a ritual of punishment and reconciliation; ''Friend of My Youth'', in which a woman comes to understand that her difficult mother is not so very different from herself; and ''The Love of a Good Woman'', in which, when an old crime resurfaces, a woman has to choose whether to believe in the man she intends to marry. Like the World War I soldier of the title story, whose letters from the front to a small-town librarian he doesn''t know change her life for ever, Munro''s unassuming characters take permanent hold of our imaginations. Her incomparable empathy for the people she writes about, the depth of her understanding of human nature, and the grace and surprise of her narrative add up to a richly layered and capacious fiction.
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Alice Munro was born in 1931 and was the author of thirteen collections of stories and the novel,
Lives of Girls and Women. She received many awards and prizes, including three of Canada's Governor General's Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, the WHSmith Book Award in the UK, the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for
Who Do You Think You Are? (previously published as
The Beggar Maid), and was awarded the Man Booker International Prize 2009 for her overall contribution to fiction on the world stage, and in 2013 she won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her stories have appeared in the
New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. Alice Munro died in 2024.
