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  • Published: 2 January 2022
  • ISBN: 9780099741312
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $29.99

The Progress of Love



2021 sees all of Alice Munro's backlist reissued in a new, modern look. These editions will appeal to a broad range of literary readers

THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

These dazzling and utterly satisfying stories explore varieties and degrees of love - filial, platonic, sexual, parental and imagined - in the lives of apparently ordinary folk. In fact, Munro's characters pulse with idiosyncratic life. Under the polished surface of these unsentimental dispatches from the small-town and rural front lies a strong undertow of violence and sexuality, repressed until something snaps, with extraordinary force in some of the stories, sadly and strangely in others.

  • Published: 2 January 2022
  • ISBN: 9780099741312
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $29.99

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Praise for The Progress of Love

A...writer of great sensitivity and delicacy. Her new collection of stories show no falling off in her gift for putting the ordinary into a sharp, clear persepective, seem very near and also very far away

Guardian

She draws her readers irresistably into the undergrowth of other people's private lives

Cosmopolitan

A work of great brilliance and depth... Munro's power of analysis, of sensation, and thoughts, is almost Proustian in its sureness

New Statesman

Only a few writers continue to create those full-bodied miniature universes of the old school. Some of her short stories are so ample and fulfilling that they feel like novels. They present whole landscapes and cultures, whole families of characters

Anne Tyler

Like her similarly gifted contemporaries Peter Taylor, William Trevor, Edna O'Brien...Alice Munro writes stories that have the density - moral, emotional, sometimes historical - of other writers' novels

Joyce Carol Oates, New York Times Book Review

In range and depth her short stories are almost novels...complete, complex, and brilliantly structured... One of the finest living short-story writers

Daily Telegraph

Whatever it is that makes some writing come alive in every phrase and sentence, Alice Munro has it... I wouldn't willingly miss one of her stories

Sunday Times

Munro has been compared with Proust, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and remains - though dazzling - quite unperturbed and unaffected, her writing smooth and supple

Financial Times

She has a touch of genius

Mail on Sunday

One of the foremost contemporary practitioners of the short story

Michiko Kakutani, New York Times