WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013
"One of the most eloquent and gifted writers of contemporary fiction... A wonderful collection of stories, beautifully written and deeply felt." - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
A woman haunted by dreams of her dead mother. An adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and the pain begins. A widow visiting a Scottish village in search of her husband's past–and instead discovering unsettling truths about a total stranger. The ten miraculously accomplished stories in Alice Munro's latest collection not only astonish and delight but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience. That mastery–the almost numinous ability to say the unsayable–makes FRIEND OF MY YOUTH a genuine literary event.
"Each of her collections demonstrates such linguistic skill, delicacy of visioin, and...moral strength and clarity...that the notion of her pre-eminence becomes ever more irresistible." - Chicago Tribune
“The great Alice Munro proves again why short-story writers bow down to her.” –Vanity Fair
“Her work felt revolutionary when I came to it, and it still does.” —Jhumpa Lahiri
“She is one of the handful of writers, some living, most dead, whom I have in mind when I say that fiction is my religion.” —Jonathan Franzen
“The authority she brings to the page is just lovely.” —Elizabeth Strout
“She’s the most savage writer I’ve ever read, also the most tender, the most honest, the most perceptive.” —Jeffery Eugenides
“Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can.”—Julian Barnes
“A wonderful writer.” —Joyce Carol Oates
