![]() ![]() Not only does it have the short stories filled with Munro’s well-crafted prose, detailing life in rural Canada, the collection also has an additional four works that Munro says “are not quite stories form a separate unit, one that is autobiographical in feeling, though not sometimes, entirely so in fact.” She adds, “I believe they are the first and last - and the closest - things I have to say about my own life.” The disclaimer kept me from reading the last four pieces, at least for one day, but once I read them, I found them just as enjoyable as the first ten stories that make up Munro’s Dear Life.Ī few highlights from the book include “To Reach Japan,” a story about Greta, a married poet, who is gets drunk at a writer’s party and is rescued by a journalist. ![]() Master storyteller Alice Munro has a new collection of short stories out that is a must read.
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