Cambridge Companion to Alice Munro

The new Cambridge Companion to Alice Munro, 2016 is a thorough introduction to the writings of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro. Uniting the talents of distinguished creative writers and noted academics, David Staines has put together a comprehensive, exploratory account of Munro’s biography, her position as a feminist, her evocation of life in small-town Ontario, her non-fictional writings as well as her short stories, and her artistic achievement. Considering a wide range of topics – including Munro’s style, life writing, her personal development, and her use of Greek myths, Celtic ballads, Norse sagas, and popular songs – this volume will appeal to keen readers of Munro’s fiction as well as students and scholars of literature and Canadian and gender studies.

Join Elizabeth Hay and Merilyn Simonds, two of the contributing authors to this new compendium of Alice Munro’s work.

Merilyn Simonds: Where do you think you are? Place in Alice Munro Stories Elizabeth Hay: The mother as material.