{"product_id":"something-ive-been-meaning-to-tell-you-13-stories-9780375707483","title":"Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You: 13 Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \"masterful\" (\u003ci\u003eHouston Post\u003c\/i\u003e) collection of stories from Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A spellbinding tour through a world of love, menace, and surprise . . . [Munro] is a writer of enormous gifts and perception.\"--\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe sisters, mothers and daughters, aunts, grandmothers, and friends in these thirteen stories, \"a rich exploration of womanhood\" (\u003ci\u003eMs.\u003c\/i\u003e), shimmer with hope and love, anger and reconciliation, as they content with their histories and their present, and what they can see of the future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn her remarkable second collection, Alice Munro demonstrates the precise observation, straightforward prose style, and masterful technique hailed by John Updike, who wrote in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003ethat \"one must go back to Tolstoy and Chekhov . . . for comparable largeness.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50610548834578,"sku":"9780375707483","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ade05710-872b-4720-b89b-58188304316e.jpg?v=1732344848","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/something-ive-been-meaning-to-tell-you-13-stories-9780375707483","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}