{"product_id":"carried-away-a-personal-selection-of-stories-introduction-by-margaret-atwood-hardcover","title":"Carried Away: A Personal Selection of Stories; Introduction by Margaret Atwood - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlice Munro\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMargaret Atwood\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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 \u003c\/p\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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlice Munro\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of thirteen collections of stories--including \u003ci\u003eDear Life, Runaway\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eToo Much Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e--as well as a novel, \u003ci\u003eLives of Girls and Women\u003c\/i\u003e. Among the many awards and prizes she received are three Governor General's Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes in Canada; the Rea Award; the Lannan Literary Award; the National Book Critics Circle Award; and the International Booker Prize. Her stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Alice Munro died in 2024.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 608\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.26 x 8.18 x 5.32 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 26, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47783001555083,"sku":"9780307264862","price":43.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0670\/2579\/7259\/files\/VALI9zxKfn9780307264862.webp?v=1782881420","url":"https:\/\/thetaletrade.com\/products\/carried-away-a-personal-selection-of-stories-introduction-by-margaret-atwood-hardcover","provider":"The Tale Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}