323 pages
English language
Published July 3, 2002 by Vintage Contemporaries.
Alice Munro has long been heralded for her penetrating, lyrical prose, and in "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" -- the basis for Sarah Polley's film Away From Her -- her prodigious talents are once again on display. As she follows Grant, a retired professor whose wife Fiona begins gradually to lose her memory and drift away from him, we slowly see how a lifetime of intimate details can create a marriage, and how mysterious the bonds of love really are.From the Trade Paperback edition.
If you need a review to tell you Munro is one of the finest short story writers working today then you haven't read her work. This collection is devastating. She has the ability to effortlessly fuse her protagonists with the reader and draw on a well of emotion so deep you would think she has the cheat codes to human consciousness.
