Munro is a great realist, and her powers come from her sense of the way in which communities – especially small, socially anxious, limited ones – construct and guard their reality.
London Review of Books
Munro is a great realist, and her powers come from her sense of the way in which communities – especially small, socially anxious, limited ones – construct and guard their reality.
London Review of Books
One of the most esteemed writers in the world....Few writers capture the moral ambiguities, murkiness, messiness - and joy - of relationships with as much empathy and grace as Munro
Guardian
Her work is practically perfect. Any writer has to gawk when reading her because her work is very subtle and precise The best short story writer alive... Munro can pack more into one of her stories - more subtlety, more grace, more tender twists of the human heart - than many novelists do in a lifetime's oeuvre
Independent
One of the world's best living short-story writers...say that she has made the short story her own and reinvigorated it somehow falls short - she has reinvented it
Observer
Munro's stories enact what can only be called a sort of magic Alice Munro! Now that's writing Stories that mirror reality
in all its erratic unpredictability
so convincingly that you can almost forget the skill with which they're created
Daily Mail
The Great One