Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You: Thirteen Stories (Plume) [Mass Market Paperback]

Alice Munro (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 1994 | Series: Plume

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.


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“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

“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

“Wonderful. . . . A sheer pleasure.” –Seattle Post-Intelligencer

“A rich exploration of womanhood. . . . A more supple, honest, sensitive and sympathetic imagination would be hard to find among writers of fiction today.” –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


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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Plume (October 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0452260213
• ISBN-13: 978-0452260214
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,683,048 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published eleven previous books.During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including the W.H. Smith Prize, the National Book Circle Critics Award, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, the Lannan Literary Award, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and the Rea Award for the Short Story. In Canada, she has won the Governor General's Award, the Giller Prize, the Trillium Book Award, and the Libris Award.Alice Munro and her husband divide their time between Clinton, Ontario, and Comox, British Columbia.

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47 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Munro at the top of her game, November 28, 2006

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This review is from: Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You: 13 Stories (Paperback)

Why has this woman never won the Booker prize? These short stories are as wonderful as any by Atwood, McEwan, or Chekhov. I finished each of these stories and wondered why the title of that story wasn't selected for the title of this collection. I must warn you, you will keep right on reading "just one more" until that sinking realization that you just read the last one makes you jump up to log on to Amazon and order another Munro title!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Munro never fails to please, September 20, 2010

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This review is from: Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You: 13 Stories (Paperback)

As usual, Munro's writing creates worlds inside of worlds through the use of the simple, every day encounters and objects we all have.

17 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Solid short stories, October 21, 1998

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This review is from: Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You: Thirteen Stories (Plume) (Mass Market Paperback)

A few of these stories are amazing, the title story to name one. All the others are at least good.