- Published: 10 January 1997
- ISBN: 9780099820604
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 304
- RRP: $24.99
Friend of My Youth

















- Published: 10 January 1997
- ISBN: 9780099820604
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 304
- RRP: $24.99
It is a collection that attests, once again, to Ms Munro's complete fluency in the short-story form, her emergence as one of the most eloquent and gifted writers of contemporary fiction
New York Times
Munro is unfaltering at changes of mood, moments when sweetness tips over into mistrust, or mockery, or disgust
Independent
She is our Chekhov, and is going to outlast most of her contemporaries
Cynthia Ozick
The particular brilliance of Alice Munro is that in range and depth her short stories are almost novels
Daily Telegraph
Brilliant at evoking life's diversity and unpredictability...an unrivalled chronicler of human nature under a vast span of aspects, moods and pressures
Sunday Times
Read not more than one of her stories a day, and allow them to work their spell: they are made last
Observer
Alice Munro's stories, Friend of My Youth, are wonderful: intricate, deep, full of absorbing and funny detail, and opening into painful and tender memories with cunningly concealed skill
Independent on Sunday
One of the best short-story writers alive
The Times