Away from Her

ISBN-13: 9780307386694 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 96 str.

Alice Munro; Sarah Polley

Opis

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE(R) IN LITERATURE 2013

Alice Munro has long been heralded for her penetrating, lyrical prose, and in "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" - the basis for Sarah Polley's film Away From Her -- her prodigious talents are once again on display. As she follows Grant, a retired professor whose wife Fiona begins gradually to lose her memory and drift away from him, we slowly see how a lifetime of intimate details can create a marriage, and how mysterious the bonds of love really are.

Recenzje

I ve always loved Alice Munro s writing, but this story punctured something. I read it, stunned, and let it sit there. It seemed to enter like a bullet. So concise and unsentimental, nothing to cushion the blow of its impact. When I was finished, I couldn t stop weeping.

Sarah Polley, from the Preface

 

Munro has a strong claim to being the best fiction writer now working in North America.

Jonathan Franzen, The New York Times Book Review

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

O autorze

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.