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Carried Away: A Selection of Stories
By Alice Munro, introduced by Margaret Atwood
Everyman’s Library, 559 pages, $25
A Canadian woman writer of short fiction: To overcome those three strikes requires extraordinary gifts. Alice Munro may be the least-well-known best contemporary writer who has, in Margaret Atwood’s words, recently been elevated to “literary sainthood.” The 17 stories collected in this book (which includes a helpful chronology of Munro’s life and an explanation of the literary context in which she writes) were written over nearly half a century and defy categorization–except to say there is an epiphany in every story.