{"product_id":"carried-away-a-personal-selection-of-stories-introduction-by-margaret-atwood-9780307264862","title":"Carried Away: A Personal Selection of Stories; Introduction by Margaret Atwood","description":"\u003cb\u003eA dazzling selection of seventeen stories from Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro--featuring an Introduction by Margaret Atwood\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Munro stands as one of the living colossi of the modern short story, and her Chekhovian realism, her keen psychological insight, her instinctive feel for the emotional arithmetic of domestic life have indelibly stamped contemporary writing.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe stories brought together in \u003ci\u003eCarried Away\u003c\/i\u003e span a quarter century, drawn from Alice Munro's earlier works. Here are such favorites as \"Royal Beatings\" in which a young girl, her father, and stepmother release the tension of their circumstances in a ritual of punishment and reconciliation; \"Friend of My Youth\" in which a woman comes to understand that her difficult mother is not so very different from herself; and \"The Albanian Virgin,\" a romantic tale of capture and escape in Central Europe that may or may not be true but that nevertheless comforts the hearer, who is on a desperate adventure of her own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMunro'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 doesn't know change her life forever, Munro's unassuming characters insinuate themselves in our hearts and take permanent hold.\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 as well as a novel, \u003ci\u003eLives of Girls and Women, \u003c\/i\u003eand two volumes of \u003ci\u003eSelected Stories.\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, Granta, \u003c\/i\u003eand other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She lives in Clinton, Ontario, near Lake Huron.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50649774752018,"sku":"9780307264862","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ef812ffa-4ce8-4e60-ae7b-6628f08ebe09.jpg?v=1733273293","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/carried-away-a-personal-selection-of-stories-introduction-by-margaret-atwood-9780307264862","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}