"A story is not like a road to follow … it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside is altered by being viewed from these windows. And you, the visitor, the reader, are altered as well by being in this enclosed space, whether it is ample and easy or full of crooked turns, or sparsely or opulently furnished. You can go back again and again, and the house, the story, always contains more than you saw the last time. It also has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you."
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Selected Stories, 1968-1994 (1996)
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Alice Munro
Alice Ann Munro (10 July 1931 – 13 May 2024) was a Canadian author, primarily of short stories. The recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, she won the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work. Munro was a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction.
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