Alice Munro,Margaret Atwood
Carried Away, is a dazzling selection of storiesâ€“seventeen favorites chosen by the author from across her distinguished career.,Alice 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, ,The Beggar Maid ,and ,The Moons of Jupiter,, through her recent best-selling collection, ,Runaway. ,Here are such favorites as â€œRoyal Beatingsâ€ in which a young girl, her father, and stepmother release the tension of their circumstances in a ritual of punishment and reconciliation; â€œFriend of My Youthâ€ in which a woman comes to understand that her difficult mother is not so very different from herself; and â€œThe Albanian Virgin," a romantic tale of capture and escape in Central Europe that may or may not be true, told by an elderly married woman to her younger friend who is on a desperate adventure of her own..,Munroâ€™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 doesnâ€™t know change her life forever, Munroâ€™s unassuming characters insinuate themselves in our hearts and take permanent hold.,Carried Away, Alice Munro's Best and My Best Stories contain the same 17 works: Royal beatings -- The beggar maid -- The turkey season -- The moons of Jupiter -- The progress of love -- Miles City, Montana -- Friend of my youth -- Meneseteung -- Differently -- Carried away -- The Albanian virgin -- A wilderness station -- Vandals -- Hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage -- Save the reaper -- Runaway -- The bear came over the mountain.
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Carried Away: A Personal Selection of Stories