Alice Munroová Knihy

Ďalšie poviedky kanadskej laureátky Nobelovej ceny, v ktorých nazriete do kuchyne osudu. Tam, kde vznikajú životné príbehy z náhod, krutých žartov a láskavých podrazov. Onkologická pacientka pobozká tínedžera a vydoluje zo seba vôľu žiť. Stará dievka, ktorú už všetci odpísali, vycestuje za ctiteľom, ktorý o ňu vlastne nikdy neprejavil záujem, a vyhrá celoživotné šťastie. Dej plynie, postavy sa mu poddávajú, no potom sa vzbúria – zakaždým inak, ako by ste čakali.

Poviedky svetoznámej kanadskej autorky sú o ženách aj o mužoch, o láske aj nenávisti, ale predovšetkým o tesnom susedstve dobra so zlom. V titulnom príbehu Láska dobrej ženy objavia chlapci z malého mesta mŕtvolu muža a prežitá hrôza ich navždy poznačí. Ešte väčší šok však čaká na ženu, ktorá si uvedomí, kto nebohého zabil. Cíti povinnosť konať správne a plánuje, ako dostane vraha do rúk spravodlivosti. Ale keď uskutoční to, čo zamýšľa, bude sa ešte môcť nazývať dobrou?

Poviedky o láske a jej zradách a prekvapeniach. Ženy každého veku a v rôznych životných situáciách, ich priatelia, milenci, rodičia a deti... všetci ľudia, o ktorých Alice Munroová píše, v jej rukách ožívajú. Má vzácny dar – príbehy pôsobia tak skutočne a nezabudnuteľne, ako keby ste ich prežívali na vlastnej koži. Na motívy troch poviedok z tejto zbierky (Šanca, Už čoskoro a Mlčanie) nakrútil španielsky režisér Pedro Almodóvar film Julieta (2016).

Zmena v živote prichádza, keď ju človek najmenej čaká. To isté platí o príbehoch Alice Munroovej. Ľudia v nich žijú, akoby o tom ani nevedeli, a zrazu sa im stane niečo dramatické, bláznivé, tragické či smiešne. Rodiny sa spájajú a rozpadajú, láska vybuchuje ako sopka a presúva celé kontinenty alebo sa vášeň mení na pokojnú rezignáciu. Kanadská spisovateľka opisuje všetky tieto príbehy s rovnakým zaujatím, akoby sa aj v tom najnenápadnejšom osude ukrývalo tajomstvo vesmíru.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 The ten miraculously accomplished stories in Alice Munro's Friend of My Youth not only astonish and delight but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience. "[Friend of My Youth is] a wonderful collection of stories, beautifully written and deeply felt."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

Ranging from the 1850s to the present and from Ontario to Brisbane and Albania, these eight linked stories are concerned with the daily threads of life in two small Ontario towns. All the stories centre on unconventional women who refuse to let themselves be constrained by society or everyday life.

Short Stories. This first-ever selection of Alice Munro's stories sums up her genius. Her territory is the secrets that cackle beneath the facade of everyday lives, the pain and promises, loves and fears of apparently ordinary men and women whom she renders extraordinary and unforgettable.

"From the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature ... a new selection of her ... short fiction, gathered from the collections of the last two decades, a companion volume to Selected stories (1968-1994)"-- Dust jacket flap.

Exploring the intricate dynamics of love, this collection of eleven stories delves into relationships among children and parents, siblings, and estranged lovers. Each narrative, including "Miles City, Montana," "Lichen," and "White Dump," highlights the complexities and emotional depth of these connections, revealing how love can shape and transform lives.

A remarkable early collection of stories by Alice Munro, the bestselling author of Dear Life, and one of the greatest fiction writers of our time. âe~Alice Munroâe(tm)s stories are miraculousâe(tm) Sunday Times âe~No one else can âe" or should be allowed to âe" write like the great Alice Munroâe(tm) Julian Barnes âe~She sets down the pains and pleasures of living in a spare, singing prose, not a word wastedâe(tm) Daily Telegraph âe~Read not more than one of her stories a day, and allow them to work their spell: they are made to lastâe(tm) Observer âe~She's the most savage writer I've ever read, also the most tender, the most honest, the most perceptiveâe(tm) Jeffrey Eugenides

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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the greatest modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.“In Munro’s hands, as in Chekhov’s, a short story is more than big enough to hold the world—and to astonish us again and again.” — Chicago TribuneIn an unbroken procession of brilliant, revelatory short stories, Alice Munro has unfolded the wordless secrets that lie at the heart of all human experience. She has won three Governor General’s Literary Awards in her native Canada, as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award.Vintage Munro includes stories from throughout her The title stories from her collections The Moons of Jupiter ; The Progress of Love ; Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage ; “Differently,” from Selected Stories , and “Carried Away,” from Open Secrets .

My Best Stories is a dazzling selection of stories—seventeen favourites chosen by the author from across her distinguished career. The stories are arranged in the order in which they were written, allowing even the most devoted Munro admirer to discover how her work developed. "Royal Beatings" shows us right away how far we are from the romantic world of happy endings. "The Albanian Virgin" smashes the idea that all of her stories are set in B.C. or in Ontario's "Alice Munro Country." "A Wilderness Station" breaks short story rules by transporting us back to the 1830s and then jumping forward more than a hundred years. And the final story, "The Bear Came Over the Mountain," which was adapted into the film Away from Her, leads us far beyond the turkey-plucking world of young girls into unflinching old age. Every story in this selection is superb. It is a book to read—and reread—very slowly, savouring each separate story. This collection of small masterpieces deserves a place in every book lover's home.

In this collection, Alice Munro captures the lives of ordinary women; their passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface. 'One of the finest short-story writers of our time...absorbing and brilliant' Observer Munro explores women who are unruly, ungovernable, unpredictable, unexpected, funny, sexy, and completely recognisable - and brings their hidden desires bubbling to the surface. The love of a good woman is not as pure and virtuous as it seems- as in her title story it can be needy and murderous. Here are women behaving badly, leaving husbands and children, running off with unsuitable lovers, pushing everyday life to the limits, and if they don't behave badly, they think surprising and disturbing thoughts. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009

Covering the first half of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro's career, these are some of the best, most touching and powerful short stories ever written This first-ever selection of Alice Munro's stories sums up her genius. Her territory is the secrets that cackle beneath the fa ade of everyday lives, the pain and promises, loves and fears of apparently ordinary men and women whom she renders extraordinary and unforgettable. This volume brings together the best of Munro's stories, from 1968 through to 1994. The second selected volume of her stories, 1995-2009 is also published by Vintage Classics.

In this series of interweaving stories, Munro recreates the evolving bond between two women in the course of almost forty years. One is Flo, practical, suspicious of other people's airs, at times dismayingly vulgar. The other is Rose, Flo's stepdaughter, a clumsy, shy girl who somehow leaves the small town she grew up in to achieve her own equivocal success in the larger world.

THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREThe characters who populate an Alice Munro story live and breathe. Passions hopelessly conceived, affections betrayed, marriages made and broken: the joys, fears, loves and awakenings of women echo throughout these twelve unforgettable stories, laying bare the unexceptional and yet inescapable pain of human contact.

Spanning her last five collections and bringing together her finest work from the past fifteen years, this selection of Alice Munro's stories infuses everyday lives with a wealth of nuance and insight. It is written with emotion and empathy.

Fifteen short stories set in typical Alice Munro territory, the farms and semi-rural towns of south-western Ontario.

At age 82, Clifton Fadiman continues his prolific publishing career, here presenting 62 of the world's best short stories from 16 countries. His criteria? "Each story had to be both interesting and of high literary merit." Fadiman fulfills both requirements and much more, offering a cornucopia of superior 20th-century writers that includes Franz Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, Isaac Babel, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Cheever, Sean O'Faolain, Graham Greene, Robert Penn Warren, Colette, John Updike, Donald Barthelme, and James Thurber. (Regrettably, J. D. Salinger is not included due to lack of permission.) Here is a truly remarkable collection of this century's short stories that readers from all over the world will read with delight.

Rose battled incessantly with her practical and shrewd step-mother, Flo, who cowed her with tales of her own past and warnings of the dangerous world outside. But Rose was ambitious - she won a scholarship and left for Toronto where she married Patrick. She was his Beggar Maid.

Alice Munro mines her rich family background, melding it with her own experiences and the transforming power of her brilliant imagination, to create perhaps her most powerful and personal collection yet. A young boy, taken to Edinburgh’s Castle Rock to look across the sea to America, catches a glimpse of his father’s dream. Scottish immigrants experience love and loss on a journey that leads them to rural Ontario. Wives, mothers, fathers, and children move through uncertainty, ambivalence, and contemplation in these stories of hopes, adversity, and wonder. The View from Castle Rock reveals what is most essential in Munro’s art: her compassionate understanding of ordinary lives.

The only novel from Alice Munro-award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman --is an insightful, honest book, "autobiographical in form but not in fact," that chronicles a young girl's growing up in rural Ontario in the 1940's. Del Jordan lives out at the end of the Flats Road on her father's fox farm, where her most frequent companions are an eccentric bachelor family friend and her rough younger brother. When she begins spending more time in town, she is surrounded by women-her mother, an agnostic, opinionted woman who sells encyclopedias to local farmers; her mother's boarder, the lusty Fern Dogherty; and her best friend, Naomi, with whom she shares the frustrations and unbridled glee of adolescence. Through these unwitting mentors and in her own encounters with sex, birth, and death, Del explores the dark and bright sides of womanhood. All along she remains a wise, witty observer and recorder of truths in small-town life. The result is a powerful, moving, and humorous demonstration of Alice Munro's unparalleled awareness of the lives of girls and women.

When Queenie elopes with a recently widowed neighbour her family are uniformly shocked, and a window on adult life and relationships is opened for her step-sister. A summertime stay with the newlyweds in Toronto yields further insight into the lives of couples, but also causes confusion. Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage .

Alice Munro turns to her family for inspiration; and what follows is a fictionalised, brilliantly imagined version of the past. 'One of my very favourite writers' Claire Tomalin From her ancestors' view from Edinburgh's Castle Rock in the eighteenth century to her parents' thwarted ambitions in Ontario, and her own awakening in 1950s Canada, Munro effortlessly weaves fact and myth to create an epic story of past and present, proving that fiction has much to tell us about life. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009

Eine an Alzheimer erkrankte Frau überrascht ihren Ehemann, der sie ein Leben lang betrogen hat, mit der Liebe zu einem Rollstuhlfahrer im Pflegeheim.Verdrängte Schuld, die heimlich weiterwirkt, rätselvolle Beziehungen, bestürzend kühne Momente des Ausbrechens aus dem eigenen das ist der Stoff, aus dem Munros Erzählungen sind.

Elles fuguent. S'échappent. S'en voir ailleurs. Elles : des femmes comme les autres. Par usure ou par hasard, un beau matin, elles quittent le domicile familial ou conjugal sans se retourner. En huit nouvelles, Alice Munro met en scène ces vies bouleversées. Avec légèreté, avec férocité, elle traque les marques laissées par le temps et les occasions perdues.

Die in »Ferne Verabredungen« versammelten schönsten Erzählungen der kanadischen Nobelpreisträgerin Alice Munro, darunter auch, erstmals auf Deutsch, ihre frühe Erzählung »Die Dimensionen eines Schattens«, spiegeln das ganze Panorama ihrer Kunst. Da ist die junge Pauline in der berühmten Erzählung »Die Kinder bleiben hier«, die Hals über Kopf ihre Familie verlässt, oder Fiona und Grant in »Der Bär kletterte über den Berg«, deren langjährige Ehe sich durch Fionas Demenz fundamental verändert. Es sind Geschichten von verborgenen Sehnsüchten, die sich allmählich ihren Raum erobern, scheinbar belanglosen Ereignissen, die doch ein ganzes Dasein infrage stellen, Geschichten vom Unterwegssein, von kühnen Momenten des Ausbrechens – mal eindringlich, mal beunruhigend, doch immer voller Sympathie für das Leben und seine Helden. Mit einem Nachwort von Manuela Reichart.

Het uitzicht vanaf Castle Rock is het meest persoonlijke boek van Alice Munro (geboren Laidlaw) waarin ze uit haar familiegeschiedenis put. Haar voorouders van vaderskant hebben sinds mensenheugenis in Schotland gewoond en het is haar vaders betovergrootvader die met zijn gezin de oversteek naar de Nieuwe Wereld waagt. Er zijn brieven bewaard gebleven van meerdere generaties Laidlaw; zo heeft Munro een beeld kunnen geven van hoe het de nieuwe emigranten en hun nageslacht verging.

Nobelpreis für Literatur 2013 Alice Munro vermag es wie niemand sonst, so viel Realität, so viel Verstrickung auf so wenigen Seiten unterzubringen. Sie weiß ihre Figuren auf so knappem Raum so präzise auszuloten, den Leser so geschickt über das scheinbar Alltägliche mitten ins Dunkle, Geheimnisvolle der menschlichen Psyche zu stoßen. Ihre Storys sind Kammerspiele des Gefühls, spektakulär im scheinbar Unspektakulären - sprachliche Meisterstücke. Alice Munro hält alles in der Schwebe, erlöst uns nicht vorschnell aus unserer Unsicherheit, sondern webt uns ein in ihr erzählerisches Netz: ihr einziges Zuhause.

Edition originale, 1968. Prix du Gouverneur général, la même année. L'auteur est l'un des écrivains canadiens-anglais les plus en vue. Ses quinze nouvelles ont pour cadre de petites villes et la campagne du sud-ouest de l'Ontario, et pour sujet principal le monde profond, cruel et mélancolique de l'enfance. Très accessible. Des textes autobiographiques qui ont cependant "toute l'autorité de la nature humaine" (##The English quarterly##). [SDM].