A short story from Nobel Prizeâwinning Alice Munroâs first collection, Dance of the Happy Shades
âIt is no exaggeration to state that Munroâs short stories are among the finest that have ever been written.ââThe Dallas Morning News
The solution came to the writer one evening: she should have an office. From Nobel Laureate Alice Munro, a brilliantly executed and revelatory storyâone of the earliest published works of her careerâin which simply finding a place to write turns out to be the hardest act of all.
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In âThe Office,â a selection from her first short story collection, Alice Munro demonstrates the precise observation, straightforward prose style, and masterful technique hailed by John Updike, who wrote in the New York Times Book Review that âone must go back to Tolstoy and Chekhov . . . for comparable largeness.â
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âWhat a stunning, subtle and sympathetic explorer of the heart Munro is.ââRon Hansen, The Washington Post
A Vintage Shorts âShort Story Monthâ Selection