A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994 (Vintage International)

Read Alice Munro for the first time for an English seminar. She is utterly fantastic. I am so honored to have studied her work. Both volumes are excellent, and worth reading through. Give her thought, give her time. She can discuss the simply and seemingly unimportant in ways that are almost hypnotic. Many of her stories are wildly honest and realistic, and full of reflection.

I have been enjoying the short stories. A bit confusing until you realize that the characters weave through the different stories but not always consecutive ones.

Master of plots, sentences, and the English language. Totally deserves a Nobel! In some ways better than Chekhov.

Its good

These stories are connected but not in a usual way which makes them more interesting

Enough said!

love it

A short story master

Of all Alice Munro`s contemporary short story writers, Cheever, Updike, Brodkey, Carver, Dubus, et al, she is the only one to have received the Nobel Prize for Literature. (Although having ignored Updike and so far Roth, while awarding it to Bob Dylan, one has to wonder at the prize`s current worth.)This twenty eight story collection covers her early period from 1968 to 1994. Many of these stories, particularly the latter ones, first appeared in the "New Yorker" magazine, which is interesting given their Canadian locale. They are not filled with action, not Christie mysteries nor O Henry surprises, but rather simple events in ordinary lives, poignant, eloquent, humorous, sometimes painful, sometimes pleasurable, to which most of us can relate.Followed by, "Family Furnishings, Stories From 1995 to 2014." Munro`s exquisite writing makes for wonderful reading.

I read every story in this collection three times and with each re-reading found more to admire and to ponder over. It's no wonder Munro won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

deserving of her nobel prizewonderful writer