The Moons of Jupiter by Munro, Alice

Eleven "witty, subtle, [and] passionate" (The New York Times Book Review) stories from Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro, "a true master of the form" (Salman Rushdie)

"Alice Munro's fine and intelligent stories are like Edward Hopper paintings, lit with a relentless clarity, and richly illuminating the perplexities of human connection, their possibilities and pain."--Washington Post Book World

In these piercingly lovely and endlessly surprising stories by one of the most acclaimed practitioners of the art of fiction, many things happen; there are betrayals and reconciliations, love affairs consummated and mourned. But the true events in The Moons of Jupiter are the ways in which the characters are transformed over time, coming to view their past selves with anger, regret, and infinite compassion that communicate themselves to us with electrifying force.

Author: Alice Munro
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 05/07/1991
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 8.21h x 5.00w x 0.57d
ISBN: 9780679732709

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/19/1991

About the Author

Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published thirteen collections of stories as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women, and two volumes of Selected Stories. During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including three of Canada's Governor General's Literary Awards and two of its Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, England's W. H. Smith Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Man Booker International Prize. In 2013 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, Granta, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She lives in Clinton, Ontario, near Lake Huron.