{"product_id":"a-wilderness-station-selected-stories-19681994-vintage-international-9781101970362","title":"A Wilderness Station Selected Stories 19681994","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eEDITORS’ CHOICE • A “luminous” (\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e) collection of twenty-eight stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, “one of the finest contemporary story writers in the English language” (\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e)—previously published as \u003ci\u003eSelected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Her stories are like few others. One must go back to Tolstoy and Chekhov . . . for comparable largeness.”—John Updike, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpanning almost thirty years and settings that range from big cities to small towns and farmsteads of rural Canada, this magnificent collection brings together twenty-eight stories “about love, marriage, discontent, divorce, betrayal, impulsive passion, second thoughts, deaths, even murder—stories with plenty of drama and surprise as well as reflection and meditation” (\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e)—by a writer of unparalleled wit, generosity, and emotional power. In \u003ci\u003eA Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968–1994\u003c\/i\u003e, Alice Munro makes lives that seem small unfold until they are revealed to be as spacious as prairies and locates the moments that change those lives forever.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA traveling salesman during the Depression takes his children with him on an impromptu visit to a former girlfriend. A poor girl steels herself to marry a rich fiancé she can’t quite manage to love. An abandoned woman tries to choose between the opposing pleasures of seduction and solitude.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eTo read these stories is to succumb to the spell of a true narrative sorcerer, a writer who enchants her readers utterly even as she restores them to their truest selves.","brand":"Random House USA Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48866335621463,"sku":"9781101970362","price":11.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781101970362.jpg?v=1722278189","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-wilderness-station-selected-stories-19681994-vintage-international-9781101970362","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}