{"product_id":"alice-munros-late-style-writing-is-the-final-thing-9781350270381","title":"Alice Munro's Late Style: 'Writing Is the Final Thing'","description":"\u003cp\u003eFocusing on Alice Munro's last three collections, this book examines the differences between these volumes and the rest of her work to analyse the emergence and the difference of her 'late style'.\u003cbr\u003eAlice Munro has effectively reshaped the short story as a form. This book focuses on Munro's art of recursion - an approach that has been evident throughout her career but came to the fore in her last three books, \u003ci\u003eThe View from Castle Rock\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), \u003ci\u003eToo Much Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e (2009) and, especially, \u003ci\u003eDear Life\u003c\/i\u003e (2012). This recursion and return manifest themselves not only in Munro's return to previously published pieces, but also to her discovery and meditations on her Scottish heritage, which can be read as entrance to her own understanding of herself and her life. Its provenance, displayed through archival evidence, is complex yet reveals a writer intent on a precise late style.\u003cbr\u003eMunro's final works serve as a coda to both her late style and to her entire career as arguably one of the finest short story writers ever to put pen to paper.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Thacker is Charles A. Dana Professor of Canadian Studies and English Emeritus at St. Lawrence University, New York, USA. He has been working on 2013 Nobel Laureate Alice Munro since the mid-1970s and is now among the world's leading Munro critics. He is author \u003ci\u003eof Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives: A Biography\u003c\/i\u003e (2005; updated 2011), written with Munro's cooperation, and \u003ci\u003eReading Alice Munro, 1973-2013\u003c\/i\u003e (2016; open access). He edited\u003ci\u003e The Rest of the Story: Critical Essays on Alice Munro\u003c\/i\u003e (1999) and \u003ci\u003eAlice Munro: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eRunaway; Dear Life\u003c\/i\u003e (2016) in Bloomsbury's Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction series.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50923213226258,"sku":"9781350270381","price":142.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5bca61cb-5456-4b4b-9ca7-07299fda13e4.jpg?v=1738946832","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/alice-munros-late-style-writing-is-the-final-thing-9781350270381","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}