Spanning her last five collections and bringing together her finest work from the pastfifteen years, this new selection of Alice Munro's stories infuses everyday lives with awealth of nuance and insight.Written with emotion and empathy, beautifully observed and remarkably crafted, thesestories are nothing short of perfection. A masterclass in the genre, from an author whodeservedly lays claim to being one of the 'major fiction writers of our time'.

Author Biography

Alice Munro was born in 1931 and is the author of twelve collections of stories, most recently Too Much Happiness, and a novel, Lives of Girls and Women. She has 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 The Beggar Maid, and has been awarded the Man Booker International Prize 2009 for her overall contribution to fiction on the world stage. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She lives with her husband in Clinton, Ontario, near Lake Huron in Canada.