~ Standard Hardcover Dear Life: Stories Alice Munro's peerless ability to give us the essence of a life in often brief but always spacious and timeless stories is once again everywhere apparent in Dear Life, a brilliant collection of short stories. Suffused with Munro's clarity of vision and her unparalleled gift for storytelling, these short stories about departures and beginnings, accidents and dangers, and outgoings and homecomings both imagined and real, paint a radiant, indelible portrait of how strange, perilous, and extraordinary ordinary life can be. "Every story ... is rewarding and the best are stunning. They leave the reader wondering how the writer manages to invoke the deepest, most difficult truths of human existence in the most plainspoken language. The author knows what matters, and the stories pay attention to it." -- Kirkus
