--- product_id: 16778917 title: "Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You: 13 Stories (Vintage International)" brand: "alice munro" price: "€ 32.58" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.hr/products/16778917-something-ive-been-meaning-to-tell-you-13-stories-vintage store_origin: HR region: Croatia --- # Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You: 13 Stories (Vintage International) **Brand:** alice munro **Price:** € 32.58 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You: 13 Stories (Vintage International) by alice munro - **How much does it cost?** € 32.58 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.hr](https://www.desertcart.hr/products/16778917-something-ive-been-meaning-to-tell-you-13-stories-vintage) ## Best For - alice munro enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted alice munro brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Alice MunroSomething I've Been Meaning to Tell You: 13 Stories ## Images ![Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You: 13 Stories (Vintage International) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81-mH1a-ngL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars Home to an old friend… *by J***I on Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2016* This is the seventh collection of Alice Munro’s stories that I have read. Serendipity so often introduces us to a new author, and I still recall when I first made the acquaintance of her work. The Love of a Good Woman : Stories, a title that captures the aspirations of many a man, was sitting on the dining room table of a Canadian friend, in Riyadh, of all places. He was a reader of quality books, so I duly took note, and purchased a copy for myself, based on his recommendation. And it has been a love affair ever after.This is the second collection of her stories, published in 1974. I remain impressed with the uniform quality of her stories: all excellent. There is no “early period,” no period where she was “trying to find her voice.” She had profound insight into the human condition, right from the very beginning of her writing.Her stories are between 20 and 30 pages. Many of them are “epics,” in that they range over the entire life of a person, or a family, and sometimes span a couple generations. Usually they are told from the female point of view. Both the longing, and the cynicism in the search for love and meaning in life are expressed. Unlike perhaps any other writer, she helps me recall incidents of my youth that have long been forgotten. I grew up in Western Pennsylvania, some 250-350 miles from the settings of various stories which are set in Ontario, Canada. I still recall “white-out” snow storms, and washing machines with ringers… and in one story a five-year old girl lost her arm to an automatic ringer.Yes, the ‘40’s and ‘50’s were simpler times, in some ways, before the addiction to electronic communications, and before “active shooter drills.” Sensory deprivation was less… the weather more real, the nature of work, also. But there was also violence, as her story, “The Executioners,” reminds us. And all too often a child’s life was cut short, by drowning in a lake, or by some disease that we did not have a ready remedy for. The yearning for love seems to be the one constants that transcends then and now.Take the story that lends its title to this collection: “Something I’ve been meaning to tell you.” It concerns two sisters, who have never left their native town, and the high school lover of one (or both?). He has left, and come back, still charming, after two wives, and drives a tour bus around the rather invented “sights” of the area. One sister, late one night, in high school, observed the other… yet she herself, even beyond middle age has never told the other about… “Something I’ve been…” “The Found Boat” reminds the reader how we entertained ourselves in the pre-electronic era. There were the spring floods from melting snow, not all of which were harnessed by dams. Kids played hopscotch on the sidewalks, for the first time in the year, cleared of snow. When was the last time anyone saw kids playing hopscotch… particularly without adult supervision? And there were the “coming of age” sexual dares, long before a kid might be arrested for sexting. There was always “plausible deniability”!Again, and again there is that “Remembrance of Things Past” aspect. How did that first lover, or first spouse turn out? In another story a woman has made the “safe choice” of a reliable Rumanian engineer as a second husband. But how did the more mercurial and selfish writer first husband turn out? In another story, a 15-year old high school drop-out works as a servant in a country house, dresses up in the wife’s finery when she is not away, and explains how she met her husband. Time and time again Munro provides the telling detail(s) of the lives of her characters that explain most, if not all of the “big picture.” In another story, after the death of her lover, a woman travels across the country, and is hit hard by the bag full of letters that she receives.As a final sampling, consider the following, also with a female narrator, from the story, “Tell me Yes or No.” “At the age when young girls nowadays are growing their hair to their waists, traveling through Afghanistan, moving – it seems to me – as smoothly as eels among their varied and innocent and transitory loves.” “When I finished The Magic Mountain I meant to get us though Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove (Vintage).” “But occasionally I would have to get out of bed, later, and go into the bathroom to put in my diaphragm…creatures of daily use, inseparable from infants, stoves, and tubs, turned now to our nightly use, with its connotations – rapidly fading – of sin and splendor… I remember far back…how sex had seemed apocalyptic (we read Lawrence, many of us were virgins at twenty.)”Munro never ceases to dazzle. Each of her prior six collections I have given my special 6-star rating to. There is certainly no reason to stop: another 6-stars. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars A collection of sad stories *by H***T on Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2014* The writers skills are evident in every story in this collection. There isn't a false note in her descriptions of her characters, their lives and their experiences but the stories are all so sad and bewildering that they become pretty depressing, no happy endings in this collection. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You: 13 Stories (Vintage) Alice Munro *by I***D on Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2014* She is one of the best writers out there. She does not wast one word; sometimes one has to reread what she wrote because she manages to say so much in so few words. Perhaps that is why she never wrote a full novel but only short stories. She got the Nobel prize and is well worth it. Longwinded writers could learn from her - but it is a gift to write as she does. Her stories are great - show so much insight. ## Frequently Bought Together - Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You: 13 Stories - Dance of the Happy Shades: And Other Stories - Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.hr/products/16778917-something-ive-been-meaning-to-tell-you-13-stories-vintage](https://www.desertcart.hr/products/16778917-something-ive-been-meaning-to-tell-you-13-stories-vintage) --- *Product available on Desertcart Croatia* *Store origin: HR* *Last updated: 2026-06-20*