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Away from Her

Away from Her

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Written by Alice MunroAuthor Alerts: Random House will alert you to new works by Alice Munro

  • Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • On Sale: April 17, 2007
  • Price: $9.00
  • ISBN: 978-0-307-38669-4 (0-307-38669-4)
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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.


“I’ve always loved Alice Munro’s 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 couldn’t stop weeping.”
—Sarah Polley, from the Preface

“Munro has a strong claim to being the best fiction writer now working in North America.”
—Jonathan Franzen, The New York Times Book Review