Selected Stories, Munro, Alice. Published by Toronto, ON, Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 1996. First Edition/First printing. 8vo up to 9½” tall. 545 pages. Brown boards with copper spine titles. 2 pin sized punch marks to spine and spine jacket and otherwise mint and unread. The twenty-eight stories in this book are selected from Alice Munro’s seven previous short story collections.
Alice Munro is a Canadian short story writer whose work has been described as having revolutionized the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time. She is the recipient of several awards including the Nobel Prize for Literature (2013) as a “master of the contemporary short story”; 3 time winner of the Governor General’s Award; 2 time winner of the Giller Prize and, winner of The Man Booker Prize.
