Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You
内容简介
In the thirteen stories in her remarkable second collection, Alice Munro demonstrates the precise observation, straightforward prose style, and masterful technique that led no less a critic than John Updike to compare her to Chekhov. The sisters, mothers and daughters, aunts, grandmothers, and friends in these stories shimmer with hope and love, anger and reconciliation, as they contend with their histories and their present, and what they can see of the future.
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作者简介
Alice Ann Munro, née Laidlaw (born 10 July 1931) is a Canadian short-story writer and three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction. Widely considered "the finest living short story writer," her stories focus on human relationships looked at through the lens of daily life. While most of Munro’s fiction is set in Southwestern Ontario, her reputation as a short-story writer is international. Her "accessible, moving stories" explore human complexities in a seemingly effortless style. Munro's writing has established her as "one of our greatest contemporary writers of fiction," or, as Cynthia Ozick put it, "our Chekhov."
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读书文摘
“他所反对的，他跟尤金提起此事时这样说，是这一代人——如果真可以将他们概括为一代人的话，是他们无论做什么事情都喜欢炫耀和张扬。为什么做所有的事情都要制造这么多的噪声，如此喧哗，如此躁动，他问。如果不大声嚷嚷恭维自己的话，他们甚至没法种出一个胡萝ト。”
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