Vintage International / Family Furnishings
Selected Stories, 1995-2014
(Sprache: Englisch)
A Best Book of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Minneapolis Star Tribune Here is a selection of Munro's most accomplished and powerfully affecting short fiction from the last two decades, a companion volume to A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories,...
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A Best Book of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Minneapolis Star Tribune Here is a selection of Munro's most accomplished and powerfully affecting short fiction from the last two decades, a companion volume to A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994. These stories encompass the fullness of human experience, from the wild exhilaration of first love (in "Passion") to the punishing consequences of leaving home ("Runaway") or ending a marriage ("The Children Stay"). And in stories that Munro has described as "closer to the truth than usual"-"Dear Life," "Working for a Living," and "Home"-we glimpse the author's own life. Subtly honed with her hallmark precision, grace, and compassion, these stories illuminate the quotidian yet astonishing particularities in the lives of men and women, parents and children, friends and lovers as they discover sex, fall in love, part, quarrel, suffer defeat, set off into the unknown, or find a way to be in the world.
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Too Much HappinessMany persons who have not studied mathematics confuse it with arithmetic and consider it a dry and arid science. Actually, however, this science requires great fantasy.
Sophia Kovalevsky
On the first day of January, in the year 1891, a small woman and a large man are walking in the Old Cemetery, in Genoa. Both of them are around forty years old. The woman has a childishly large head, with a thicket of dark curls, and her expression is eager, faintly pleading. Her face has begun to look worn. The man is immense. He weighs 285 pounds, distributed over a large frame, and being Russian, he is often referred to as a bear, also as a Cossack. At present he is crouching over tombstones and writing in his notebook, collecting inscriptions and puzzling over abbreviations not immediately clear to him, though he speaks Russian, French, English, Italian, and has an under- standing of classical and medieval Latin. His knowledge is as expansive as his physique, and though his speciality is governmental law, he is capable of lecturing on the growth of contemporary political institutions in America, the peculiarities of society in Russia and the West, and the laws and practices of ancient empires. But he is not a pedant. He is witty and popular, at ease on various levels, and able to live a most comfortable life, due to his properties near Kharkov. He has, however, been forbidden to hold an academic post in Russia, because of being a Liberal.
His name suits him. Maksim. Maksim Maksimovich Kovalevsky.
The woman with him is also a Kovalevsky. She was married to a distant cousin of his, but is now a widow.
She speaks to him teasingly.
You know that one of us will die, she says. One of us will die this year.
Only half listening, he asks her, Why is that?
Because we have gone walking in a graveyard on the first day of the New
Year.
Indeed.
There are
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still a few things you don t know, she says in her pert but anxious way. I knew that before I was eight years old.
Girls spend more time with kitchen maids and boys in the stables I sup- pose that is why.
Boys in the stables do not hear about death?
Not so much. Concentration is on other things.
There is snow that day but it is soft. They leave melted, black footprints
where they ve walked.
She met him for the first time in 1888. He had come to Stockholm to advise on the foundation of a school of social sciences. Their shared nationality, going so far as a shared family name, would have thrown them together even if there was no particular attraction. She would have had a responsibility to entertain and generally take care of a fellow Liberal, unwelcome at home.
But that turned out to be no duty at all. They flew at each other as if they had indeed been long-lost relatives. A torrent of jokes and questions followed, an immediate understanding, a rich gabble of Russian, as if the languages of Western Europe had been flimsy formal cages in which they had been too long confined, or paltry substitutes for true human speech. Their behavior, as well, soon overflowed the proprieties of Stockholm. He stayed late at her apartment. She went alone to lunch with him at his hotel. When he hurt his leg in a mishap on the ice, she helped him with the soaking and dressing and, what was more, she told people about it. She was so sure of herself then, and especially sure of him. She wrote a description of him to a friend, borrowing from De Musset.
He is very joyful, and at the same time very gloomy
Disagreeable neighbor, excellent comrade
Extremely light-minded, a
Girls spend more time with kitchen maids and boys in the stables I sup- pose that is why.
Boys in the stables do not hear about death?
Not so much. Concentration is on other things.
There is snow that day but it is soft. They leave melted, black footprints
where they ve walked.
She met him for the first time in 1888. He had come to Stockholm to advise on the foundation of a school of social sciences. Their shared nationality, going so far as a shared family name, would have thrown them together even if there was no particular attraction. She would have had a responsibility to entertain and generally take care of a fellow Liberal, unwelcome at home.
But that turned out to be no duty at all. They flew at each other as if they had indeed been long-lost relatives. A torrent of jokes and questions followed, an immediate understanding, a rich gabble of Russian, as if the languages of Western Europe had been flimsy formal cages in which they had been too long confined, or paltry substitutes for true human speech. Their behavior, as well, soon overflowed the proprieties of Stockholm. He stayed late at her apartment. She went alone to lunch with him at his hotel. When he hurt his leg in a mishap on the ice, she helped him with the soaking and dressing and, what was more, she told people about it. She was so sure of herself then, and especially sure of him. She wrote a description of him to a friend, borrowing from De Musset.
He is very joyful, and at the same time very gloomy
Disagreeable neighbor, excellent comrade
Extremely light-minded, a
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Autoren-Porträt von Alice Munro
Alice Munro
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Alice Munro
- 2015, 784 Seiten, Maße: 20 x 13,2 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Random House
- ISBN-10: 1101872357
- ISBN-13: 9781101872352
- Erscheinungsdatum: 03.09.2015
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
A Best Book of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Minneapolis Star TribuneWhat a stunning, subtle and sympathetic explorer of the heart Munro is. The Washington Post
Generations to come will relish and study Family Furnishings. . . . A superb introduction for those new to her work, and a reminder to longtime fans that Munro is a writer to be cherished. NPR
Brilliant. . . . In the simplest of words, and with the greatest of power, she makes us see and hear an unremarkable scene we will never forget. The New York Review of Books
Turn to just about any page and you ll discover a brilliant insight into human behavior. . . . Family Furnishings reminds us that Munro is our greatest contemporary short story writer. USA Today
[An] extraordinary collection. . . . Munro seems to have gotten hold of our own darkest feelings about the people in our lives and transformed them, gloriously, into art. San Francisco Chronicle
The preeminent short-fiction writer of her time. . . . Astonishing. . . . Stunning. . . . Remind[s] us that fiction, at its most profound and moving, is about human endurance, which makes it very much a reflection of reality. Los Angeles Times
Munro s literary genius for the short-story form has been widely deemed incomparable. The Canadian writer captures those small moments that reverberate through ordinary lives in meticulous prose. Her economy in words fashions a language that pierces the heart. New York Daily News
These are human stories, and great ones. . . . Nobody can tell a tale, spin a character, break a heart, the way Alice Munro can. Minneapolis Star Tribune
Munro may have arrived at the end of her career, but her stories keep changing, as works of art tend to do. . . . Because Munro s people often act unpredictably they wind up doing things they hadn t known they were going to do and startle themselves the stories, even on repeated readings, retain their original
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suspense, their sense that anything can happen. The New York Times Book Review
If there s literary pleasure greater than reading Alice Munro, it must be rereading Alice Munro. The Seattle Times
It is no exaggeration to state that Munro s short stories are among the finest that have ever been written. She s sure to endure alongside Poe, Hemingway and O Connor. . . . She s that rare writer who is able to match her early career achievements and even top them. The Dallas Morning News
A writer who slowly fashioned a house of fiction large enough for both a room of her own and all of her family furnishings ensuring that she herself had space to maneuver while others still had plenty of space to stretch out and live. Those others include us, her very lucky readers. The Philadelphia Inquirer
Munro s stories are remarkable for their evocation of places and the people who live there, for ambiguities, their ellipses, and their deftness. Her prose is lucid: ranging from delicacy to forthright attack, sometimes witty, ironic. The Washington Times
If there s literary pleasure greater than reading Alice Munro, it must be rereading Alice Munro. The Seattle Times
It is no exaggeration to state that Munro s short stories are among the finest that have ever been written. She s sure to endure alongside Poe, Hemingway and O Connor. . . . She s that rare writer who is able to match her early career achievements and even top them. The Dallas Morning News
A writer who slowly fashioned a house of fiction large enough for both a room of her own and all of her family furnishings ensuring that she herself had space to maneuver while others still had plenty of space to stretch out and live. Those others include us, her very lucky readers. The Philadelphia Inquirer
Munro s stories are remarkable for their evocation of places and the people who live there, for ambiguities, their ellipses, and their deftness. Her prose is lucid: ranging from delicacy to forthright attack, sometimes witty, ironic. The Washington Times
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