{"product_id":"a-wilderness-station-selected-stories-1968-1994-9781101970362","title":"A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eEDITORS' CHOICE - A \"luminous\" (\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e) collection of twenty-eight stories from Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro, \"one of the finest contemporary story writers in the English language\" (\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e)--previously published as \u003ci\u003eSelected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Her stories are like few others. One must go back to Tolstoy and Chekhov . . . for comparable largeness.\"--John Updike, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSpanning almost thirty years and settings that range from big cities to small towns and farmsteads of rural Canada, this magnificent collection brings together twenty-eight stories \"about love, marriage, discontent, divorce, betrayal, impulsive passion, second thoughts, deaths, even murder--stories with plenty of drama and surprise as well as reflection and meditation\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e)--by a writer of unparalleled wit, generosity, and emotional power. In \u003ci\u003eA Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994\u003c\/i\u003e, Alice Munro makes lives that seem small unfold until they are revealed to be as spacious as prairies and locates the moments that change those lives forever. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA traveling salesman during the Depression takes his children with him on an impromptu visit to a former girlfriend. A poor girl steels herself to marry a rich fianc? she can't quite manage to love. An abandoned woman tries to choose between the opposing pleasures of seduction and solitude. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo read these stories is to succumb to the spell of a true narrative sorcerer, a writer who enchants her readers utterly even as she restores them to their truest selves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published thirteen collections of stories and a novel. During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards, including two Giller Prizes, 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, Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Magazine, The Paris Review, Granta\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50601118433554,"sku":"9781101970362","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_43287e68-053c-4d7d-92e3-f727527246a4.jpg?v=1732221017","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-wilderness-station-selected-stories-1968-1994-9781101970362","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}