![]() ![]() To read these stories is to succumb to the spell of a true narrative sorcerer, a writer who enchants her readers utterly even as she restores them to their truest selves. An abandoned woman tries to choose between the opposing pleasures of seduction and solitude. ![]() ![]() A poor girl steels herself to marry a rich fiance she can't quite manage to love. A traveling salesman during the Depression takes his children with him on an impromptu visit to a former girlfriend. In A Wilderness Station:Selected Stories, 19681994, Alice Munro makes lives that seem small unfold until they are revealed to be as spacious as prairies and locates the moments of love and betrayal, desire and forgiveness, that change those lives forever. A New York Times Editors' Choice BookSpanning almost thirty years and settings that range from big cities to small towns and farmsteads of rural Canada, this magnificent collection brings together twenty-eight stories by a writer of unparalleled wit, generosity, and emotional power. ![]()
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