{"product_id":"2940169847703","title":"Dear Life: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA brilliant new collection of stories from one of the most acclaimed and beloved writers of our time. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlice Munro's peerless ability to give us the essence of a life in often brief but always spacious and timeless stories is once again everywhere apparent in this brilliant new collection. In story after story, she illumines the moment a life is forever altered by a chance encounter or an action not taken, or by a simple twist of fate that turns a person out of his or her accustomed path and into a new way of being or thinking. A poet, finding herself in alien territory at her first literary party, is rescued by a seasoned newspaper columnist, and is soon hurtling across the continent, young child in tow, toward a hoped-for but completely unplanned meeting. A young soldier, returning to his fiancée from the Second World War, steps off the train before his stop and onto the farm of another woman, beginning a life on the move. A wealthy young woman having an affair with the married lawyer hired by her father to handle his estate comes up with a surprising way to deal with the blackmailer who finds them out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile most of these stories take place in Munro's home territory-the small Canadian towns around Lake Huron-the characters sometimes venture to the cities, and the audiobook ends with four pieces set in the area where she grew up, and in the time of her own childhood: stories \"autobiographical in feeling, though not, sometimes, entirely so in fact.\" A girl who can't sleep imagines night after wakeful night that she kills her beloved younger sister. A mother snatches up her child and runs for dear life when a crazy woman comes into her yard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuffused with Munro's clarity of vision and her unparalleled gift for storytelling, these tales about departures and beginnings, accidents and dangers, and outgoings and homecomings both imagined and real, paint a radiant, indelible portrait of how strange, perilous, and extraordinary ordinary life can be.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47178570006768,"sku":"2940169847703","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169847703_p0.jpg?v=1763695714","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169847703","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}