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Away from Her by Alice Munro With a Preface by Sarah PolleyCreated on October 14, 2008 at 12:08pm
Carried Away: A Selection of Stories by Alice MunroCreated on October 14, 2008 at 5:24am
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- Movie "Hateship, Loveship, Courtship" starring Julianne Moore 6:37pm Oct 27|3 Comments
- The movie "Away from Her" 6:28pm Oct 27|2 Comments
Noam Murro is scheduled to direct this movie from a screenplay by Mark Poirier based on an Alice Munro short story. plot: A nanny hired to care for a teenage girl falls for her ailing father. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479924/
Noam Murro is scheduled to direct this movie from a screenplay by Mark Poirier based on an Alice Munro short story. plot: A nanny hired to care for a teenage girl falls for her ailing father. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479924/
Based on the short story "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0491747/
Alice Munro
Away from Her by Alice Munro
with a Preface by Sarah Polley
A movie tie-in edition of Alice Munro's powerful short story "The Bear Came Over the Mountain", the basis for Canadian director Sarah Polley's first film starring Julie Christie, Olympia Dukakis, and Gordon Pinsent from Lionsgate.
Away from Her is Canadian direct...or (and former child actor) Sarah Polley's first film. It has already been screened to great reviews (Variety: "A gracefully wrought study of a long-term marriage being wedged
apart by Alzheimer's.")
Movie's Release Date: May 4, 2007.
Alice Munro's short story "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" (from her 2001 collection Hateship, Friendship, Courtship,
Loveship, Marriage) focuses on Fiona and Grant, a married couple who have been together nearly all their lives, growing old
together like millions of other couples. But when Fiona develops Alzheimer's disease and Grant makes the difficult decision to
move her into a nursing home, their marriage faces a perhaps-insurmountable obstacle.
Fiona soon begins to forget everything - her own life, her decades-long marriage, her love for her husband - as Grant watches
helplessly. Then, she makes a new friend - a wheelchair-bound fellow resident named Aubrey - and begins to develop an attachment
to him. Yet Grant attempts to come to terms with the new state of affairs, as does Aubrey's pragmatic wife Marian. As one
relationship develops and another disintegrates, Grant struggles to adapt to the instability that old age brings to us all. Alice
Munro's supple prose and keen insight have never been more evident than in this story, with its poignant and affecting descriptions
of love, loss, and longing.
"I've always loved Alice Munro's writing, but this story punctured something. I read it, stunned, and let it sit there. It seemed to
enter like a bullet. So concise and unsentimental, nothing to cushion the blow of its impact. When I was finished, I couldn't stop
weeping." --Sarah Polley, from the Preface
Alice Munro
Carried Away: A Selection of Stories by Alice Munro
Everyman's Library Hardcover, 600 pages
ISBN: 978-0-307-26486-2 (0-307-26486-6)
Carried Away is a dazzling selection of stories–seventeen favorites chosen by the author from across her distinguished career.
Alice Munro has been repeatedly hailed as one of our... greatest living writers, a reputation that has been growing for years. The stories brought together here span a quarter century, drawn from some of her earliest books, The Beggar Maid and The Moons of Jupiter, through her recent best-selling collection, Runaway.
Here are such favorites as “Royal Beatings” in which a young girl, her father, and stepmother release the tension of their circumstances in a ritual of punishment and reconciliation; “Friend of My Youth” in which a woman comes to understand that her difficult mother is not so very different from herself; and “The Love of a Good Woman,” in which, when an old crime resurfaces, a woman has to choose whether to believe in the man she intends to marry.
Munro’s incomparable empathy for her characters, the depth of her understanding of human nature, and the grace and surprise of her narrative add up to a richly layered and capacious fiction. Like the World War I soldier in the title story, whose letters from the front to a small-town librarian he doesn’t know change her life forever, Munro’s unassuming characters insinuate themselves in our hearts and take permanent hold.
Alice Munro
Vintage Munro by Alice Munro
Vintage Trade Paperback, 208 pages
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3395-9 (1-4000-3395-0)
Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the greatest modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.
“In Munro’s hands, as in Chekhov’s, a short story is more than big en...ough to hold the world—and to astonish us again and again.” —Chicago Tribune
In an unbroken procession of brilliant, revelatory short stories, Alice Munro has unfolded the wordless secrets that lie at the heart of all human experience. She has won three Governor General’s Literary Awards in her native Canada, as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Vintage Munro includes stories from throughout her career: The title stories from her collections The Moons of Jupiter; The Progress of Love; Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage; “Differently,” from Selected Stories, and “Carried Away,” from Open Secrets.
Alice Munro
The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose by Alice Munro
Vintage Trade Paperback, 224 pages
ISBN: 978-0-679-73271-6 (0-679-73271-3)
In this series of interweaving stories, Munro recreates the evolving bond between two women in the course of almost forty years. One is Flo, practical, suspicious of other people'...s airs, at times dismayingly vulgar. the other is Rose, Flo's stepdaughter, a clumsy, shy girl who somehow leaves the small town she grew up in to achieve her own equivocal success in the larger world.
Alice Munro
Friend of My Youth: Stories by Alice Munro
Vintage Trade Paperback, 288 pages
ISBN: 978-0-679-72957-0 (0-679-72957-7)
The ten miraculously accomplished stories in Alice Munro's Friend of My Youth not only astonish and delight but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience.
"[Frien...d of My Youth is] a wonderful collection of stories, beautifully written and deeply felt."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
Alice Munro
Dance of the Happy Shades: And Other Stories by Alice Munro
Vintage Trade Paperback, 240 pages
ISBN: 978-0-679-78151-6 (0-679-78151-X)
In these fifteen short stories--her eighth collection of short stories in a long and distinguished career--Alice Munro conjures ordinary lives with an extraordinary vision, di...splaying the remarkable talent for which she is now widely celebrated. Set on farms, by river marshes, in the lonely towns and new suburbs of western Ontario, these tales are luminous acts of attention to those vivid moments when revelation emerges from the layers of experience that lie behind even the most everyday events and lives.
"Virtuosity, elemental command, incisive like a diamond, remarkable: all these descriptions fit Alice Munro."--Christian Science Monitor
"How does one know when one is in the grip of art--of a major talent?....It is art that speaks from the pages of Alice Munro's stories."--Wall Street Journal
Alice Munro
The Moons of Jupiter by Alice Munro
Vintage Trade Paperback, 256 pages
ISBN: 978-0-679-73270-9 (0-679-73270-5)
In these piercingly lovely and endlessly surprising stories by one of the most acclaimed current practitioners of the art of fiction, many things happen: there are betrayals and reconciliations, love... affairs consummated and mourned. But the true events in The Moons Of Jupiter are the ways in which the characters are transformed over time, coming to view their past selves with an anger, regret, and infinite compassion that communicate themselves to us with electrifying force.
Alice Munro
Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You: 13 Stories by Alice Munro
Vintage Trade Paperback, 256 pages
ISBN: 978-0-375-70748-3 (0-375-70748-4)
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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