Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You - (Vintage International) by Alice Munro (Paperback)

About the Book

"In the thirteen stories in her 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."--

Book Synopsis

A "masterful" (Houston Post) collection of stories from Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro

"A spellbinding tour through a world of love, menace, and surprise . . . [Munro] is a writer of enormous gifts and perception."--Los Angeles Times

The sisters, mothers and daughters, aunts, grandmothers, and friends in these thirteen stories, "a rich exploration of womanhood" (Ms.), shimmer with hope and love, anger and reconciliation, as they content with their histories and their present, and what they can see of the future.

In her remarkable second collection, Alice Munro demonstrates the precise observation, straightforward prose style, and masterful technique hailed by John Updike, who wrote in the New York Times Book Review that "one must go back to Tolstoy and Chekhov . . . for comparable largeness."

Review Quotes

"Munro, the hugely gifted chronicler, is fast becoming one of the world's great totemic writers. . . . Each short story is a mansion of many rooms."--The New York Times Book Review

"How honest and how lovely. . . . A spellbinding tour through a world of love, menace and surprise. . . . [Munro] is a writer of enormous gifts and perception."--Los Angeles Times

"Wonderful. . . . A sheer pleasure."--Seattle Post-Intelligencer

"A rich exploration of womanhood. . . . A more supple, honest, sensitive and sympathetic imagination would be hard to find among writers of fiction today."--Ms.

"Masterful . . . proves beyond question Alice Munro's trenchant ability to capture the essence of personality in the vagaries of human impulses. . . . It is hard to imagine a perception more acute."--Houston Post

About the Author

Alice Munro is the author of thirteen collections of stories--including Dear Life, Runaway, and Too Much Happiness--as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women. Among the many awards and prizes she received are three Governor General's Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes in Canada; the Rea Award; the Lannan Literary Award; the National Book Critics Circle Award; and the International Booker Prize. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Alice Munro died in 2024.