With the ease and mastery that have won extraordinary acclaim for her writingAlice Munro explores the most intimate and transforming moments of experience mome... » 

With the ease and mastery that have won extraordinary acclaim for her writingAlice Munro explores the most intimate and transforming moments of experience moments when the shape of a life is set moments of realization about theburden the power and the nature of love.Alice Munros charactersvulnerable and inured to hardship find themselves struggling in a brutal yetmysteriously beautiful world a young man contends with the responsibility hefeels for his brother a divorced woman returns to her childhood home and thememory of her parents own complicated yet enduring marriage a man visits hisexwife with his current lover only to feel a closer kinship with hisestranged partner and her perceptive ways. In these eleven stories Alice Munroproves once again a sensitive and compassionate chronicler of modern times.Drawing us into the potent and intimate corners of various lives she tells usmuch about ourselves our choices and our experiences of love. «