The Progress of Love

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013

Alice Munro, who received the National Book Critics Circle Award for her latest collection of stories, The Love of a Good Woman, is widely acknowledged as a modern master of the short story. In this earlier collection, she demonstrates all of those strengths that have won her so many literary accolades.

A divorced woman returns to her childhood home where she confronts the memory of her parents' confounding yet deep bond. The accidental near-drowning of a child exposes the fragility of the trust between children and parents. A young man, remembering a terrifying childhood incident, wrestles with the responsibility he has always felt for his younger brother. In these and other stories Alice Munro proves once again a sensitive and compassionate chronicler of our times. Drawing us into the most intimate corners of ordinary lives, she reveals much about ourselves, our choices, and our experiences of love.

• Open Secrets: Stories
• The Moons of Jupiter
• Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories
• The Love of a Good Woman : Stories
• Friend of My Youth: Stories
• Dance of the Happy Shades: And Other Stories
• The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose
• Runaway
• Too Much Happiness (Vintage International)
• Ficciones