carried away a selection of stories alice munro

Taking, for the moment, the individual Munro shorts/extracts/chapters, Longer and more satisfying read than the now notorious Bridges of MadisonĬounty, one perhaps to measure against Hotel du Lac, another 'tiddler'. Larger print, thicker paper, readers would have had a quality 'novel', a Munro's publisher marketed this as a novel or novella, larger margins, If Carried Away is a short story, then mere word-count does not define! Had Kerouac and Elizabeth Smart's By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and WeptĪll come in between 27,000 and 30,000 words, while Steinbeck'sĭizzylingly-long book Of Mice & Men and Jerzy Kosinski's Being There log inĪdmittedly, I've chosen one of Munro's longest pieces, but it remains that Hemingway's Old Man & The Sea, Lawrence's The Virgin & the Gypsy, Pic, by Goose, longer than Gertrude Stein's Blood on the Dining Room Floor. The core story of Bridges of Madison County, or Paul Gallico's The Snow Munro's Carried Away is almost twenty-one thousand words, much longer than

Longer than a short novel, still a short story, while the 'novel' is not? So what is a short story, what is a novel? Is a long short story, one Munro had published, 'Two volumes of short stories and a novel, The Lives In the introduction to this edition, Penguin were quite happy to note that I'm not quite sure, but, whatever it is, it's wonderful. Whether The Beggar Maid is a collection of stories, or a new kind of novel, Relationships between its parts that none other than literary novelist andĬreative writing guru, John Gardner, tutor to Raymond Carver and author of

Short-listed for the Booker Prize - as a novel ? - was so organic in the Rose since re-issued as Who Do You Think You Are?. Old, dog-eared copy of Alice Munro's The Beggar Maid - Stories of Flo and Tired of working on that term paper? Rather relax and read some great fiction and poetry? Why not take a break and check out the current issue of this award winning literary magazine? Remember: procrastination is the secret to happiness!īrowsing the second-hand bookshops of Bath a few months ago, I spotted an

Carried away a selection of stories alice munro