ALICE MUNRO’S WORLD OF SHORT-STORIES

Abstract

Alice Munro is far and wide recognized as one of the world’s unsurpassed living writers of short ï¬ction in English. Alice Munro is a Canadian author who suffuses her stories with the natural features and common life of her indigenous western Ontario. She was born in Wingham in south-western Ontario, in 1931. She grew up near the small town of Wingham in Huron County, Ontario in a red-brick farmhouse with her parents, a brother and a sister. She was a gifted child. Alice Munro is described as “Canada’s Chekhovâ€, “Canada’s Flaubertâ€. She is a wonderful teller of tales who has been called a writer’s writer and many writers both in Canada and outside of Canada do love and think highly of her works. But Alice Munro is also a reader’s writer. She writes with intelligence, depth, and consideration, carrying her readers with her in her explorations of character, in search of some kind of understanding, to reveal any mystery though no neat resolutions are given, still she tries to figure things out in an elegant, moving way.