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Cosa accade quando una donna decide di assecondare la sua passione e seguire l'uomo che ama, ma dimentica le sue figlie? Oppure quando sceglie di inseguire il sogno di giorni più felici aggrappandosi alle lettere scritte a uno sconosciuto? Quanto resta dei tanti anni di gioia passati insieme alla propria moglie, se lei ne sta perdendo lentamente il ricordo? Le domande a cui rispondono le storie di Alice Munro lasciano sempre pieni di dubbi. E più passa il tempo più si fanno semplici, come se avesse ormai capito la formula per distillare in purezza l'esistenza senza complicarla. Perché le sue domande sono quelle che ciascuno si pone nel corso di una vita. All'apparenza facilissime, rivelano invece tutta la grazia di cui sono capaci gli esseri umani, le scelte fatte e non fatte, le cose prime e quelle ultime con cui ognuno di noi deve fare i conti.
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- Data di uscita: 31-05-2016
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Alice Munro has been a wonderful discovery for me. I can’t recommend her two selected volumes—this one and an earlier collection called A Wilderness Station —enough. Please read her.
Family Furnishings, Selected Stories 1995-2014 by Alice Munro was an absolute delight. Each of these short stories contains so much detail and character development they read like a 300-page book. How Munro packs so much punch into 20 or 30 pages I’ll never know, but she does. Many of these pieces a Leggi tutto
Published: Dallas Morning News, 14 November 2014 06:33 PM Think of Family Furnishings as a victory lap for Alice Munro, the 83-year-old Canadian writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature last year and has won at least one of just about every other major literary prize she qualifies for. Munro Leggi tutto
Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014 by Alice Munro is a very highly recommended collection of 24 short stories with an introduction by Jane Smiley. All these short stories have been previously published and are now brought together for this collection. The title stories, which are all nov Leggi tutto
Reading this book cover to cover was quite the undertaking. Not so much because it is long (over 600 pages!) but because there is just so much to consume: complex characters, generation-spanning plots, impeccable prose, physical and emotional landscapes. All of these are jam packed into the twenty s Leggi tutto
Cómo abordar todo lo que siento? Tenía muchas incertidumbres de leer a Munro y que no llegase a entender sus cuentos y no llegasen a gustarme. Pero, me ha arrollado súbitamente! Cabe aclarar que no los leí de un tirón. Leí la mitad en una semana y postergue su lectura 3 meses, porque no dejaba de pe Leggi tutto
Family Furnishings is my second foray into the mind of Alice Munro, but will certainly not be my last. Munro writes the best prose––and the best short stories––of any modern author with whom I am familiar. Her disarmingly prosaic and delectably mysterious tales unveil the hidden meanings lurking wit Leggi tutto
The thing with Munro, is that she makes you WORK. And lord knows, I'm lazy – particularly in reading, hence why avoid the titans of Russian literature. Well, as well in other aspects of life. It’s why I choose running over cycling, so I don't have to test my patience to learn how to maintain a bicyc Leggi tutto
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