The Progress of Love (Vintage International)

Highly lauded, however I don’t find Alice Munro’s writing as magnetic as many. Her stories are thoughtful and she chooses incidents that are often small but always meaningful. Despite this, her writing is long winded and digressive. I’m sorry, Alice- I’m not swept away.

The short stories need to be savored individually to be appreciated.

Alice Munro has blown me out of the water once again. with her insights into the intricacies and delicious complications of family life and love.

If you don't know Alice Munro, get this book, and read it. You will be happy that you lose yourself in her stories.

Even though she received awards for her writing, I did not enjoy this book. The stories seemed to go no where, and I had difficulty trying to figure out the progress of love in the stories.

All Alice Munro books are great and this is no exception

Terrific book. As advertised!

Just as you would expect - stunning!

Thanks for the fast shipping!!! Love this vintage paperback.

A brilliant collection of stories.

Fairly disappointed. I was expecting to get the cover with Coleville's painting, as shown. Instead, I received a book with a plain, green cover.

The beauty of Munro's writing lies in simplicity and character depth. How often does one feel that the characters are not just well developed but thoroughly developed in a short story? Importantly, the typical short stories cover aspects of a short span, and probably justified by the word 'short'. Whereas most others write stories that are short, Munro does it the other way. She shortens the stories, and that is the difference between Munro and others. I am not saying the cliche that she truly deserved the Nobel prize. This is beyond all of that. It is more like collection of novels and not *short* stories.

Lovely writing really interesting stories.