{"product_id":"a-wilderness-station-isbn-9781101970362","title":"A Wilderness Station","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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 fiancé she can’t quite manage to love. An abandoned woman tries to choose between the opposing pleasures of seduction and solitude.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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.“Heart-stopping, utterly beautiful. . . . One of the finest contemporary story writers in the English language.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNewsday \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“She has quietly emerged as one of our greatest living writers. . . . Munro has an unerring talent for uncovering the extraordinary in the ordinary.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Her stories are like few others. One must go back to Tolstoy and Chekhov . . . for comparable largeness.”\u003cb\u003e—John Updike, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Makes one believe anew in fiction’s power to transfigure.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A wonderful sampling of vintage Munro. . . . For those who have never read her, there is no better place to begin. And for those long familiar with her writing, there remain surprises and rediscoveries.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“She seeks to evoke the mysteries of real life and she succeeds brilliantly.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] literary sensation . . . told with such perfect pitch that the results are stunning.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Meaty 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.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An entire world caught in the amber of memory. [The stories] have a quality of folk art about them—its patient amplitude, sly humor, and hard materiality.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A rare pleasure . . . rich and complex . . . an excellent one-volume introduction to her work.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBoston Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Luminous . . . Munro’s stories ride on tone and feeling: Merely summarizing one is like describing a villa by holding up its doorbell.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eALICE MUNRO grew up in Wingham, Ontario and attended the University of Western Ontario (now Western University), studying journalism and English. Her first collection of stories was published in 1968 as \u003ci\u003eDance of the Happy Shades\u003c\/i\u003e, which garnered much acclaim and won the Governor General’s Award for English fiction that year. Three years later, she published her only novel, \u003ci\u003eLives of Girls and Women\u003c\/i\u003e. Over the next few decades, she published many more short story collections, including \u003ci\u003eWho Do You Think You Are?\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Moons of Jupiter\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eHateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage\u003c\/i\u003e, from which a story was later adapted into the two-time Academy Award–winning movie, \u003ci\u003eAway from Her\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eRunaway\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe View from Castle Rock\u003c\/i\u003e. Her stories appeared regularly in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    In 1978 Munro received her second Governor General’s Award for \u003ci\u003eWho Do You Think You Are? \u003c\/i\u003eand her third in 1986 with \u003ci\u003eThe Progress of Love\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2009 she won the Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work. Her final story collection, \u003ci\u003eDear Life\u003c\/i\u003e, came in 2012, and the next year, the same year she retired from writing, she won the Nobel Prize in Literature, hailed as the “master of the contemporary short story.” Munro has also been the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the W.H. 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