Аннотация
ALICE MUNRO’S BEST
SELECTED STORIES
With an Introduction by Margaret Atwood
INTRODUCTION
Alice Munro is among the major writers of English fiction of our time. She’s been accorded armfuls of super-superlatives by critics in both North America and the United Kingdom, she’s won many awards, and she has a devoted international readership. Among writers themselves, her name is spoken in hushed tones. Most recently she’s been used as a stick to flog the enemy with, in various inter-writerly combats. “You call this writing?” the floggers say, in effect. “Alice Munro! Now that’s writing!” She’s the kind of writer about whom it is often said—no matter how well-known she becomes—that she ought to be better known.
None of this happened overnight. Alice Munro has been writing since the 1960s, and her first collection—Dance of the Happy Shades—appeared in 1968. To date she has published eleven collections, averaging nine or ten stories e...
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