{"product_id":"carried-away-a-personal-selection-of-stories-introduction-by-margaret-atwood-hardcover","title":"Carried Away: A Personal Selection of Stories; Introduction by Margaret Atwood - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlice Munro\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMargaret Atwood\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE(R) IN LITERATURE 2013\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarried Away\u003c\/i\u003e is a dazzling selection of stories-seventeen favorites chosen by the author from across her distinguished career. With an Introduction by Margaret Atwood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlice Munro has been repeatedly hailed as one of our greatest living writers, a reputation that has been growing for years. The stories brought together here span a quarter century, drawn from some of her earliest books, \u003ci\u003eThe Beggar Maid \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Moons of Jupiter, \u003c\/i\u003e through her recent best-selling collection, \u003ci\u003eRunaway. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere are such favorites as \"Royal Beatings\" in which a young girl, her father, and 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 Albanian Virgin,\" a romantic tale of capture and escape in Central Europe that may or may not be true but that nevertheless comforts the hearer, who is on a desperate adventure of her own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMunro's incomparable empathy for her characters, 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. Like the World War I soldier in the title story, whose letters from the front to a small-town librarian he doesn't know change her life forever, Munro's unassuming characters insinuate themselves in our hearts and take permanent hold.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published thirteen collections of stories as well as a novel, \u003ci\u003eLives of Girls and Women, \u003c\/i\u003eand two volumes of \u003ci\u003eSelected Stories.\u003c\/i\u003e During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including three of Canada's Governor General's Literary Awards and two of its Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, England's W. H. Smith Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Man Booker International Prize. In 2013 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, Granta, \u003c\/i\u003eand other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She lives in Clinton, Ontario, near Lake Huron.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 608\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.26 x 8.18 x 5.32 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 26, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52156838740199,"sku":"9780307264862","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/8329\/8279\/files\/378268bea84a054bb112b393eba1fbbc.webp?v=1780494642","url":"https:\/\/skinnonsmooth.myshopify.com\/products\/carried-away-a-personal-selection-of-stories-introduction-by-margaret-atwood-hardcover","provider":"SkinnOnSmooth","version":"1.0","type":"link"}