Figuring it out as best I can, Munro’s stories are about 15,000 words each which would make them more like novellas. Per the great Wiki, “short stories” are under 7500 words. That means they have an average of 37 or so pages each. There are 8 stories in this volume of 295 pages. Maybe what Faulkner was to Mississippi or Wharton was to New York.
She may be a bit regional sometimes, but that’s okay with me – as I was reading along I realized that Alice Munro is to western Ontario what Flannery O’Connor is to Georgia. Munro is so great – it seems like she writes whole novels in 40 pages. This is an “older” collection of stories written by Alice Munro, the “contemporary Chekov of Canada” (per Margaret Atwood), or of the world, some might say since she won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature for that very thing.
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