Book Synopsis From Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro, a true master of the form (Salman Rushdie), comes the brilliant short story that inspired the major motion picture starring Julie Christie and Gordon Pinsent--featuring a Preface from Sarah Polley Ive always loved Alice Munros writing, but this story punctured something. I read it, stunned, and let it sit there. It seemed to enter like a bullet. So concise and unsentimental, nothing to cushion the blow of its impact. When I was finished, I couldnt stop weeping.--Sarah Polley, from the Preface Alice Munro has long been heralded for her penetrating, lyrical prose, and in The Bear Came Over the Mountain--the basis for Sarah Polleys 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 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. Review Quotes Praise for Alice Munro Munro has a strong claim to being the best fiction writer now working in North America. --Jonathan Franzen , The New York Times Book Review Her work felt revolutionary when I came to it, and it still does. --Jhumpa Lahiri The authority she brings to the page is just lovely. --Elizabeth Strout Shes the most savage writer Ive 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 She is a short-story writer who . . . reimagined what a story can do. --Lorrie Moore Theres probably no one alive whos better at the craft of the short story. --Jim Shepard A true master of the form. --Salman Rushdie A wonderful writer. --Joyce Carol Oates About the Author Alice Munro is the author of thirteen collections of stories--including Dear Life, Runaway , and Too Much Happiness --as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women . Among the many awards and prizes she received are three Governor Generals Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes in Canada; the Rea Award; the Lannan Literary Award; the National Book Critics Circle Award; and the International Booker Prize. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker , The Atlantic , The Paris Review , and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Alice Munro died in 2024.