![]() This is especially true of the “not quite stories” Munro has written over the past decade, pastiches the author calls “autobiographical in feeling, though not, sometimes, entirely so in fact.” Three of them (“Working for a Living,” “Home” and “Dear Life”) appear in “Family Furnishings,” and they bring a certain resonance to the enterprise. ![]() gotten more experimental rather than less.” Yet rather than fall into any sort of expected pattern, she has, as Jane Smiley notes in her introduction to this deep and constantly surprising collection, “in the last six volumes, written since 1996. Munro’s first book came out in 1968 she had already received pretty much every award possible before winning the Nobel Prize in literature in 2013. The two dozen efforts here come from late in her career, after she had established herself as (perhaps) the preeminent short-fiction writer of her time. ![]() ![]() The most astonishing aspect of Alice Munro’s “Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014” may be its chronology. ![]()
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