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Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You: 13 Stories
出版社： Random House, Inc. (International Division)
書林書號：
20175740
作者：
Munro, Alice
定價：
560
會員價：
$476
ISBN：
9780375707483
出版年份：
2004
裝訂：
平裝
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隱隱帶著嫉妒的愛，總是最難以啟齒。
——令約翰‧厄普代克也懾服的短篇小說集

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.
Alice 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, Lives of Girls and Women, and two volumes of Selected Stories. 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 The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, Granta, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She lives in Clinton, Ontario, near Lake Huron. 
“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
「孟若，這位極具天賦的編年史家，正迅速成為這世界最了不起的圖騰作家……每一部短篇都是由許多房間組成的大樓。」——《紐約時報》書評
“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
「多麼誠實又多麼動人……愛的世界裡一趟引人入勝的旅程，危險又令人驚訝……（孟若）是位天賦異稟又充滿感知的作家。」——《洛杉磯時報》
“Wonderful. . . . A sheer pleasure.” –Seattle Post-Intelligencer
「美好……純粹的愉悅。」——《西雅圖郵訊報》
“A rich exploration of womanhood. . . . A more supple, honest, sensitive and sympathetic imagination would be hard to find among writers of fiction today.” –Ms.
「對女性的豐富考察……更柔軟、誠實、感性與憐憫的想像力，當今小說家中難以得見。」——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
「對女性的豐富考察……更柔軟、誠實、感性與憐憫的想像力，當今小說家中難以得見。」——Ms.
「大師級作品……毫無疑問證明了艾莉絲•孟若那鞭辟入裡的能力：捕捉人於突如其來的衝動下、難以預測行為的個人特質……很難想像有比這更尖銳的覺察。」——《休士頓郵報》
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
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