Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives: A Biography

by Robert Thacker

Book Overview

This is the book about one of the world's great authors, Alice Munro, which shows how her life and her stories intertwine.

For almost thirty years Robert Thacker has been researching this book, steeping himself in Alice Munro's life and work, working with her co-operation to make it complete. The result is a feast of information for Alice Munro's admirers everywhere.

By following "the parallel tracks" of Alice Munro's life and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0771085109
• ISBN13: 9780771085109
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Emblem Editions
• Length: 696 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A Must for Munro Fans

Robert Thacker has written a respectful, enlightening biography of Alice Munro that focuses mostly upon the critical reception to her work and the personal and business circumstances that made possible her surprisingly large audience. He also spends plenty of time making the case, one way or the other, that Munro ought to be regarded as one of our great writers. Like many biographies written while their subjects are still alive, the memoir is fairly shallow in its probing of Munro's personal life. It sticks to the facts and avoids digging around much in the darker places, except to show where the work is reflective of difficult personal circumstances. All this is very forgivable, because this is the only Munro biography we yet have, and it is plenty readable, and it is pleasing to spend a little more time thinking about Munro and her fine stories.