Proposals That Work: A Guide for Planning Dissertations and Grant Proposals Sixth Edition Edition
Author: Visit ‘s Lawrence F. Locke Page ID: 1452216851
About the Author
Lawrence F. Locke is Professor Emeritus of Education and Physical Education at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. A native of Connecticut, he received his bachelors and masters degrees from Springfield College and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. He has written extensively on the production and utilization of research on teaching and teacher education. He has authored a number of books designed to assist non-specialists with the tasks of reading and understanding research. After many years residing in Sunderland, MA he now makes his home on Cape Cod, but with his wife, Professor Lorraine Goyette, he has spent much of each year writing, running, and exploring the Beartooth Mountains at Sky Ranch in Reed Point, MT.
Waneen Wyrick Spirduso is the Mauzy Regents Professor Emerita in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education at The University of Texas at Austin. She is a native of Austin and holds bachelors and doctoral degrees from The University of Texas and a masters degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her research focuses on the effects of aging and the mechanisms of motor control. She has been a prolific contributor to the research literature and has authored textbooks related to research methods and aging. She taught research methods and directed student research for more than four decades and has received numerous research grants from the federal government and foundations. She plays golf and rows, and lives with her husband, Craig Spirduso, in Austin, TX. Her website is http://ift.tt/2jYvNBa
Stephen J. Silverman is Professor of Education and Chair of the Department of Biobehavioral Sciences at Teachers College, Columbia University. He is a native of Philadelphia and holds a bachelors degree from Temple University, a masters degree from Washington State University, and a doctoral degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His research focuses on teaching and learning in physical education and on methods for conducting research in field settings. He has authored numerous research articles and chapters, and is coauthor of a number of books. He has served as editor of two research journals, is an experienced research consultant, has directed graduate students, and has, for many years, taught classes in research methods, statistics, and measurement. He enjoys running, following politics, and aquatic sports, and lives with his wife, Patricia Moran, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. His website is: http://ift.tt/2jbtP2U
Paperback: 408 pagesPublisher: SAGE Publications, Inc; Sixth Edition edition (April 18, 2013)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1452216851ISBN-13: 978-1452216850 Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.9 x 9 inches Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #339,702 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #243 in Books > Medical Books > Research #330 in Books > Textbooks > Medicine & Health Sciences > Research #512 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Research
As a text required for a doctoral class in writing proposals for our dissertations, this text did outline the process and looked at what we need to do to continue our work towards completing this process.
This is a great book if you’re in a research methods class or starting your research proposal. It has some very practical information on grant writing and sources of research grants too. Highly recommend.
Very readable, with the ring of truth. If my proposal actually *does* work, I’ll be back to add a couple of stars to this review –
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Proposals That Work: A Guide for Planning Dissertations and Grant Proposals Sixth Edition Edition
Author: Visit ‘s Lawrence F. Locke Page ID: 1452216851
About the Author
Lawrence F. Locke is Professor Emeritus of Education and Physical Education at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. A native of Connecticut, he received his bachelors and masters degrees from Springfield College and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. He has written extensively on the production and utilization of research on teaching and teacher education. He has authored a number of books designed to assist non-specialists with the tasks of reading and understanding research. After many years residing in Sunderland, MA he now makes his home on Cape Cod, but with his wife, Professor Lorraine Goyette, he has spent much of each year writing, running, and exploring the Beartooth Mountains at Sky Ranch in Reed Point, MT.
Waneen Wyrick Spirduso is the Mauzy Regents Professor Emerita in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education at The University of Texas at Austin. She is a native of Austin and holds bachelors and doctoral degrees from The University of Texas and a masters degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her research focuses on the effects of aging and the mechanisms of motor control. She has been a prolific contributor to the research literature and has authored textbooks related to research methods and aging. She taught research methods and directed student research for more than four decades and has received numerous research grants from the federal government and foundations. She plays golf and rows, and lives with her husband, Craig Spirduso, in Austin, TX. Her website is http://ift.tt/2jYvNBa
Stephen J. Silverman is Professor of Education and Chair of the Department of Biobehavioral Sciences at Teachers College, Columbia University. He is a native of Philadelphia and holds a bachelors degree from Temple University, a masters degree from Washington State University, and a doctoral degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His research focuses on teaching and learning in physical education and on methods for conducting research in field settings. He has authored numerous research articles and chapters, and is coauthor of a number of books. He has served as editor of two research journals, is an experienced research consultant, has directed graduate students, and has, for many years, taught classes in research methods, statistics, and measurement. He enjoys running, following politics, and aquatic sports, and lives with his wife, Patricia Moran, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. His website is: http://ift.tt/2jbtP2U
Paperback: 408 pagesPublisher: SAGE Publications, Inc; Sixth Edition edition (April 18, 2013)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1452216851ISBN-13: 978-1452216850 Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.9 x 9 inches Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #339,702 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #243 in Books > Medical Books > Research #330 in Books > Textbooks > Medicine & Health Sciences > Research #512 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Research
As a text required for a doctoral class in writing proposals for our dissertations, this text did outline the process and looked at what we need to do to continue our work towards completing this process.
This is a great book if you’re in a research methods class or starting your research proposal. It has some very practical information on grant writing and sources of research grants too. Highly recommend.
Very readable, with the ring of truth. If my proposal actually *does* work, I’ll be back to add a couple of stars to this review –
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Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories Hardcover – August 4, 2015
Author: Visit ‘s China Miéville Page ID: 110188472X
Review
“Even when he is orbiting somewhere in a galaxy too far away for normal human comprehension, the genre-subverting English novelist China Miéville is dazzling. His latest collection of short stories, Three Moments of an Explosion, crowds virtuosity into every sentence. . . . There are things to admire in every story, even the ones you can’t quite grasp. The book left me feeling unsettled, uneasy, nervous, and I think that is Mr. Miéville’s point. He wants to draw attention to the scratching under the floorboards, the panic in our heads, the rebellion of nature and inanimate objects. As he says, ‘These days there are so many odd and troubling noises in the city.’”—Sarah Lyall, The New York Times
“You can’t talk about Miéville without using the word ‘brilliant.’ . . . His wit dazzles, his humour is lively, and the pure vitality of his imagination is astonishing. . . . My favourite of all these tales is ‘The Rules,’ two and a half pages long. Read it. You won’t regret it, or forget it.”—Ursula K. Le Guin, The Guardian (U.K.)
“Three Moments of an Explosion is a book filled with fabulous oddities.”—Entertainment Weekly
“Horror, noir, fantasy, politics, and poetry swirl into combinations as satisfying intellectually as they are emotionally. . . . Bradbury meets Borges, with Lovecraft gibbering tumultuously just out of hearing.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Miéville moves effortlessly among realism, fantasy, and surrealism in this dark, sometimes horrific short story collection. . . . His characters, whether ordinary witnesses to extraordinary events or lunatics operating out of inexplicable compulsions, are invariably well drawn and compelling. Above all, what the stories have in common is a sense that the world is not just strange, but stranger than we can ever really comprehend.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
About the Author
China Miéville is the author of numerous books, including The City & The City, Embassytown, Railsea, and Perdido Street Station. His works have won the World Fantasy Award, the Hugo Award, and the Arthur C. Clarke Award (three times). He lives and works in London.
Hardcover: 400 pagesPublisher: Del Rey; 1St Edition edition (August 4, 2015)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 110188472XISBN-13: 978-1101884720 Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.3 x 9.6 inches Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #90,827 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #2461 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Short Stories & Anthologies > Short Stories #3755 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Paranormal & Urban #7446 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Literary
China Mieville is a writer that I admire greatly. I’ve read all of his previously published books including his first collection of short stories Looking for Jake. His writing style has been described as "Baroque" with its complexity of language, its density of visual imagery and the extensive use of similes and metaphors. Perdido Street Station may be one of the most imaginative fantasies ever written. The City and the City is perhaps the most inventive detective procedural novel ever devised.
Three Moments of an Explosion is a collection of stories written in a much simpler style. He is essentially picking up were he left off in Un Lun Dun, Mieville appears to be consciously simplifying his writing style, perhaps as a way of attracting a more mainstream audience by increIDg his accessibility. His writing is direct and to the point. The content of these stories emphasize the weirdness that Mieville loves to celebrate in his work. Floating icebergs in the skies over England, multi-armed aliens frozen in a moment of time, strange, inexplicable card games whose stakes may be deadly, academic life gone bizarrely, violently haywire: these are some of the events that fill this collection of stories.
Mieville is fascinated by the enigmatic aura that surrounds us even as we wander through life’s banalities. Mieville lives and writes where the arcane and incomprehensible bisect the mundane and ordinary. His stories revel in that murky zone of strangeness. This collection seems most gripping when reading Mieville’s longer stories, which give him an opportunity to stretch his sinews and delve deeply into his dreams and nightmares, reporting to his readers the uncanny events he discovers there. What he discovers is often provocative, disturbing and remarkable.
I almost gave this book one star, but I didn’t hate it. I was just bored with it. I wanted to like it. I liked the last two books I read by China Mieville but those were novels and this faults weren’t so glaring in those novels.
His main fault/virtue is that he’s clever. He’s very clever. The City & The City set up a dystopian city where there were two cities on top of each other and only residents knew the borders. Residents would never cross the borders. They would purposefully ignore the other city to the point where they forgot that there was another city even there. For me, it was the perfect Dystopian novel since it described city life, particularly large cities like London and New York where people limit the kinds of neighbors that they interact with, sometimes without even realizing it. For example, I live in Washington Heights (in Manhattan) and I know almost all of the Jewish residents. I don’t know any Dominicans and I really wish that the white hipsters would just leave the neighborhood. By that same token Un Lun Dun turns the chosen one hero trope on its head by getting rid of the chosen one on page 40.
These are great books and I would still recommend them, but the fact that they are novels allows Mieville to paint a larger painting and lets his clever games play out over an actual story (as thin as that story might be).
No such luck with his short stories. His short stories are just clever. Like the one with four perspectives on Orpheus (in the last one he just hates Eurydice). Or "The Condition of the New Death" where everyone dies like videogame characters. The implications of these clever conceits are never truly explored and just kind of lay there.
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Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories Hardcover – August 4, 2015
Author: Visit ‘s China Miéville Page ID: 110188472X
Review
“Even when he is orbiting somewhere in a galaxy too far away for normal human comprehension, the genre-subverting English novelist China Miéville is dazzling. His latest collection of short stories, Three Moments of an Explosion, crowds virtuosity into every sentence. . . . There are things to admire in every story, even the ones you can’t quite grasp. The book left me feeling unsettled, uneasy, nervous, and I think that is Mr. Miéville’s point. He wants to draw attention to the scratching under the floorboards, the panic in our heads, the rebellion of nature and inanimate objects. As he says, ‘These days there are so many odd and troubling noises in the city.’”—Sarah Lyall, The New York Times
“You can’t talk about Miéville without using the word ‘brilliant.’ . . . His wit dazzles, his humour is lively, and the pure vitality of his imagination is astonishing. . . . My favourite of all these tales is ‘The Rules,’ two and a half pages long. Read it. You won’t regret it, or forget it.”—Ursula K. Le Guin, The Guardian (U.K.)
“Three Moments of an Explosion is a book filled with fabulous oddities.”—Entertainment Weekly
“Horror, noir, fantasy, politics, and poetry swirl into combinations as satisfying intellectually as they are emotionally. . . . Bradbury meets Borges, with Lovecraft gibbering tumultuously just out of hearing.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Miéville moves effortlessly among realism, fantasy, and surrealism in this dark, sometimes horrific short story collection. . . . His characters, whether ordinary witnesses to extraordinary events or lunatics operating out of inexplicable compulsions, are invariably well drawn and compelling. Above all, what the stories have in common is a sense that the world is not just strange, but stranger than we can ever really comprehend.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
About the Author
China Miéville is the author of numerous books, including The City & The City, Embassytown, Railsea, and Perdido Street Station. His works have won the World Fantasy Award, the Hugo Award, and the Arthur C. Clarke Award (three times). He lives and works in London.
Hardcover: 400 pagesPublisher: Del Rey; 1St Edition edition (August 4, 2015)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 110188472XISBN-13: 978-1101884720 Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.3 x 9.6 inches Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #90,827 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #2461 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Short Stories & Anthologies > Short Stories #3755 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Paranormal & Urban #7446 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Literary
China Mieville is a writer that I admire greatly. I’ve read all of his previously published books including his first collection of short stories Looking for Jake. His writing style has been described as "Baroque" with its complexity of language, its density of visual imagery and the extensive use of similes and metaphors. Perdido Street Station may be one of the most imaginative fantasies ever written. The City and the City is perhaps the most inventive detective procedural novel ever devised.
Three Moments of an Explosion is a collection of stories written in a much simpler style. He is essentially picking up were he left off in Un Lun Dun, Mieville appears to be consciously simplifying his writing style, perhaps as a way of attracting a more mainstream audience by increIDg his accessibility. His writing is direct and to the point. The content of these stories emphasize the weirdness that Mieville loves to celebrate in his work. Floating icebergs in the skies over England, multi-armed aliens frozen in a moment of time, strange, inexplicable card games whose stakes may be deadly, academic life gone bizarrely, violently haywire: these are some of the events that fill this collection of stories.
Mieville is fascinated by the enigmatic aura that surrounds us even as we wander through life’s banalities. Mieville lives and writes where the arcane and incomprehensible bisect the mundane and ordinary. His stories revel in that murky zone of strangeness. This collection seems most gripping when reading Mieville’s longer stories, which give him an opportunity to stretch his sinews and delve deeply into his dreams and nightmares, reporting to his readers the uncanny events he discovers there. What he discovers is often provocative, disturbing and remarkable.
I almost gave this book one star, but I didn’t hate it. I was just bored with it. I wanted to like it. I liked the last two books I read by China Mieville but those were novels and this faults weren’t so glaring in those novels.
His main fault/virtue is that he’s clever. He’s very clever. The City & The City set up a dystopian city where there were two cities on top of each other and only residents knew the borders. Residents would never cross the borders. They would purposefully ignore the other city to the point where they forgot that there was another city even there. For me, it was the perfect Dystopian novel since it described city life, particularly large cities like London and New York where people limit the kinds of neighbors that they interact with, sometimes without even realizing it. For example, I live in Washington Heights (in Manhattan) and I know almost all of the Jewish residents. I don’t know any Dominicans and I really wish that the white hipsters would just leave the neighborhood. By that same token Un Lun Dun turns the chosen one hero trope on its head by getting rid of the chosen one on page 40.
These are great books and I would still recommend them, but the fact that they are novels allows Mieville to paint a larger painting and lets his clever games play out over an actual story (as thin as that story might be).
No such luck with his short stories. His short stories are just clever. Like the one with four perspectives on Orpheus (in the last one he just hates Eurydice). Or "The Condition of the New Death" where everyone dies like videogame characters. The implications of these clever conceits are never truly explored and just kind of lay there.
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Science and Technical Writing: A Manual of Style 2nd Edition
Author: Visit ‘s Philip Rubens Page ID: 0415925509
Review
The book really shines when it tackles the specifics of science writing. The sections on scientific terms and symbols; technology terms; units of measurement; mathematical expressions; equations; and citations, notes, and references are invaluable for those who frequently deal with these issues. –Bob Andrews,Technical Communication
About the Author
Philip Rubens is Professor of Technical Communications at East Carolina University.
Hardcover: 544 pagesPublisher: Routledge; 2 edition (December 19, 2000)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0415925509ISBN-13: 978-0415925501 Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #2,952,312 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1079 in Books > Reference > Writing, Research & Publishing Guides > Writing > Technical #1323 in Books > Science & Math > Reference #2015 in Books > Medical Books > Research
This is the best style guide for technical writing I have ever found. It gives more every day practical information than any of the other technical writing books and gives that information in a highly usable format.
My only complaint–my standard complaint about my reference books–is that the index is far less comprehensive than it ought to be. Given modern computer indexing capabilities, one would think authors and publishers could do a better job.
However, with this is one of the four essential books: 1. Strunk and White, Elements of Style, 2. Prentice Hall, Words Into Type, 3. Garner, A Dictionary of Modern American Usage (for the British tech writer, Fowler’s Modern English Usage) and 4. Ruebens, Science and Technical Writing. With these four, a technical writer can handle almost any situation that arises. There are other books covering special fields that can be added, but these four will always be the bedrock.
If you are a professional technical writer or only an occasional one, you can’t go wrong having this book handy on your desktop.
The second edition of this text makes many useful changes to the previous edition. Hopefully, readers WILL peruse the Preface. On page 36 of that section, there is a FULL explanation of the location and summarizing techniques that make this text extremely usable.
Yes, each chapter does begin with a bulleted list that catalogs the major sub-sections in that specific chapter. Second, the Table of Contents offers page numbers to major topical changes. Third, the Index (compiled by a former president of the American Society of Indexers) references each paragraph in the text.
So, there are multiple ways to find specific pieces of information by using one of three major location techniques: topical changes in the toc, paragraph references in the index, and chapter level tocs at the beginning of each chapter. The latter are NOT, as one reviewer suggests, simply bulleted lists.
I’m happy to see this book issued as a Kindle book and hope others find it useful as an addition to their professional library.
I found this text difficult to use on a regular bases. Yes it has a lot of useful content but searching through it and figuring out how this are organized is a pain. I ended up making use of the ACS: Styles Guide because its more aligned with the type of writing I do. If you can purchases this for a decent price then I would say it might be worth it.
Science and Technical Writing A Manual of Style With this new edition Science and Technical Writing Science and Technical Writing A Manual of Style and A Manual of Style Routledge Study Guides 2nd Science And Technical Writing A Manual Of Style Book information and reviews for ISBN 9780415925518 Science And Technical Writing A Manual Of A Manual Of Style Second Edition Routledge Study 2nd Edition Computer Science Technical Writing Textbooks Computer Science Technical Writing Textbooks Microsoft Manual of Style 4th Edition By Revised Edition A Guide to Debugging Your Prose 2nd Edition Books Technical editing and style guides Technical Technical Editors Eyrie Science and Technical Writing A Manual of Style Edited by Philip Rubens 2nd edition Routledge
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Science and Technical Writing: A Manual of Style 2nd Edition
Author: Visit ‘s Philip Rubens Page ID: 0415925509
Review
The book really shines when it tackles the specifics of science writing. The sections on scientific terms and symbols; technology terms; units of measurement; mathematical expressions; equations; and citations, notes, and references are invaluable for those who frequently deal with these issues. –Bob Andrews,Technical Communication
About the Author
Philip Rubens is Professor of Technical Communications at East Carolina University.
Hardcover: 544 pagesPublisher: Routledge; 2 edition (December 19, 2000)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0415925509ISBN-13: 978-0415925501 Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #2,952,312 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1079 in Books > Reference > Writing, Research & Publishing Guides > Writing > Technical #1323 in Books > Science & Math > Reference #2015 in Books > Medical Books > Research
This is the best style guide for technical writing I have ever found. It gives more every day practical information than any of the other technical writing books and gives that information in a highly usable format.
My only complaint–my standard complaint about my reference books–is that the index is far less comprehensive than it ought to be. Given modern computer indexing capabilities, one would think authors and publishers could do a better job.
However, with this is one of the four essential books: 1. Strunk and White, Elements of Style, 2. Prentice Hall, Words Into Type, 3. Garner, A Dictionary of Modern American Usage (for the British tech writer, Fowler’s Modern English Usage) and 4. Ruebens, Science and Technical Writing. With these four, a technical writer can handle almost any situation that arises. There are other books covering special fields that can be added, but these four will always be the bedrock.
If you are a professional technical writer or only an occasional one, you can’t go wrong having this book handy on your desktop.
The second edition of this text makes many useful changes to the previous edition. Hopefully, readers WILL peruse the Preface. On page 36 of that section, there is a FULL explanation of the location and summarizing techniques that make this text extremely usable.
Yes, each chapter does begin with a bulleted list that catalogs the major sub-sections in that specific chapter. Second, the Table of Contents offers page numbers to major topical changes. Third, the Index (compiled by a former president of the American Society of Indexers) references each paragraph in the text.
So, there are multiple ways to find specific pieces of information by using one of three major location techniques: topical changes in the toc, paragraph references in the index, and chapter level tocs at the beginning of each chapter. The latter are NOT, as one reviewer suggests, simply bulleted lists.
I’m happy to see this book issued as a Kindle book and hope others find it useful as an addition to their professional library.
I found this text difficult to use on a regular bases. Yes it has a lot of useful content but searching through it and figuring out how this are organized is a pain. I ended up making use of the ACS: Styles Guide because its more aligned with the type of writing I do. If you can purchases this for a decent price then I would say it might be worth it.
Science and Technical Writing A Manual of Style With this new edition Science and Technical Writing Science and Technical Writing A Manual of Style and A Manual of Style Routledge Study Guides 2nd Science And Technical Writing A Manual Of Style Book information and reviews for ISBN 9780415925518 Science And Technical Writing A Manual Of A Manual Of Style Second Edition Routledge Study 2nd Edition Computer Science Technical Writing Textbooks Computer Science Technical Writing Textbooks Microsoft Manual of Style 4th Edition By Revised Edition A Guide to Debugging Your Prose 2nd Edition Books Technical editing and style guides Technical Technical Editors Eyrie Science and Technical Writing A Manual of Style Edited by Philip Rubens 2nd edition Routledge
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Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014 (Vintage International) Paperback – September 15, 2015
Author: Alice Munro ID: 1101872357
Review
“What a stunning, subtle and sympathetic explorer of the heart Munro is.” —The Washington Post
“Generations to come will relish and study Family Furnishings. . . . A superb introduction for those new to her work, and a reminder to longtime fans that Munro is a writer to be cherished.” —NPR
“Brilliant. . . . In the simplest of words, and with the greatest of power, she makes us see and hear an ‘unremarkable’ scene we will never forget.” —The New York Review of Books
“Turn to just about any page and you’ll discover a brilliant insight into human behavior. . . . Family Furnishings reminds us that Munro is our greatest contemporary short story writer.” —USA Today
“[An] extraordinary collection. . . . Munro seems to have gotten hold of our own darkest feelings about the people in our lives and transformed them, gloriously, into art.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“The preeminent short-fiction writer of her time. . . . Astonishing. . . . Stunning. . . . Remind[s] us that fiction, at its most profound and moving, is about human endurance, which makes it very much a reflection of reality.” —Los Angeles Times
“Munro’s literary genius for the short-story form has been widely deemed incomparable. The Canadian writer captures those small moments that reverberate through ordinary lives in meticulous prose. Her economy in words fashions a language that pierces the heart.” —New York Daily News
“These are human stories, and great ones. . . . Nobody can tell a tale, spin a character, break a heart, the way Alice Munro can.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Munro may have arrived at the end of her career, but her stories keep changing, as works of art tend to do. . . . Because Munro’s people often act unpredictably—they wind up doing things they hadn’t known they were going to do and startle themselves—the stories, even on repeated readings, retain their original suspense, their sense that anything can happen.” —The New York Times Book Review
“If there’s literary pleasure greater than reading Alice Munro, it must be rereading Alice Munro.” —The Seattle Times
“It is no exaggeration to state that Munro’s short stories are among the finest that have ever been written. She’s sure to endure alongside Poe, Hemingway and O’Connor. . . . She’s that rare writer who is able to match her early career achievements and even top them.” —The Dallas Morning News
“A writer who slowly fashioned a house of fiction large enough for both a room of her own and all of her family furnishings—ensuring that she herself had space to maneuver while others still had plenty of space to stretch out and live. Those others include us, her very lucky readers.” — The Philadelphia Inquirer
“Munro’s stories are remarkable for their evocation of places and the people who live there, for ambiguities, their ellipses, and their deftness. Her prose is lucid: ranging from delicacy to forthright attack, sometimes witty, ironic.” —The Washington Times
About the Author
Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published thirteen collections of stories and a novel. During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards, including two Giller Prizes, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Man Booker International Prize. In 2013 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s Magazine, The Paris Review, Granta, and many other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages.
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Series: Vintage InternationalPaperback: 784 pagesPublisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (September 15, 2015)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1101872357ISBN-13: 978-1101872352 Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 1.4 x 8 inches Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #25,933 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #790 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Short Stories & Anthologies > Short Stories #2744 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Literary #2812 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Women’s Fiction > Contemporary Women
My three favorite North American short story writers are John Cheever, Tobias Wolff, and Alice Munro. Of the three, Munro’s stories are a bigger challenge. Often her plot points are elliptical. She slowly and leisurely lets her genius unfold her sprawling stories, often close to 40 pages long, piece by piece, so that her style can present a challenge to one’s patience. But the patience pays off because more than Cheever and Wolff, Munro has this brilliant and rare gift to make a 30-40-page short story feel as if you’ve immersed yourself in a life with a sense of completeness that you could only imagine with a 400-page novel.
If you’re new to Munro, you might open this 600-page book and begin with some of her more accessible stories first:
“My Mother’s Dream”: An unusual point of view of a girl thinking back to her being a baby and almost dying after her father dies and family and friends converge on the grieving mother. It’s almost as if the first-person narrator, clearly too young as an infant to grasp the details of this period, gleans what she knows from family and friends when she gets into her teens.
“Family Furnishings”: A story about social class and the “city” vs. the “country,” this tale is about a larger than life character, the narrator’s older cousin Alfrida, who lives in the big city where she creates a squeaky-clean person as an advice columnist. The disparity between her newspaper persona and her gimlet-eyed cynical self is not only funny but is central to the story’s theme about the loss of innocence.
“The Bear Came Over the Mountain”: A story of a professor and his wife who succumbs to dementia and the complex, knotty love they have for each other even after the wife is institutionalized.
Like many other readers, I have always been in awe of Alice Munro, whose short stories are just so well-crafted that each of them sparkles like a little gem.
In collection after collection, her strength has always been taking ordinary human lives and extricating that one moment of revelation. In just a few beautifully written sentences, she’s able to define a person in a totally original way.
Take this description, from The Bear Came Over The Mountain: “Getting close to Marian would present a different problem. It would be like biting into a litchi nut. The flesh with its oddly artificial allure, its chemical taste and perfume, shallow over the extensive seed, the stone.”
Now this Nobel Laureate has assembled some of her most memorable stories from 1995-2014, with a forward from Jane Smiley. And it gives this reader yet one more reason to rejoice. In the words of Ms. Smiley, “Munro…has made of the short story something new, using precision of language and complexity of emotion to cut out the relaxed parts of the novel and focus on the essence of transformation.”
These are stories to savor, brimming with life and recreating the definition of what a short story is all about. Sometimes, she courageously turns the spotlight on her own life: The View from Castle Rock, for example, finds her mining her family history and meshing imagination and fact…the eponymous Family Furnishings reveals a young writer who steals the poignant, personal and painful history of an eccentric aunt to further her craft. Download Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014 – September 15, 2015 Free PDF
Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014 (Vintage International) Paperback – September 15, 2015
Author: Alice Munro ID: 1101872357
Review
“What a stunning, subtle and sympathetic explorer of the heart Munro is.” —The Washington Post
“Generations to come will relish and study Family Furnishings. . . . A superb introduction for those new to her work, and a reminder to longtime fans that Munro is a writer to be cherished.” —NPR
“Brilliant. . . . In the simplest of words, and with the greatest of power, she makes us see and hear an ‘unremarkable’ scene we will never forget.” —The New York Review of Books
“Turn to just about any page and you’ll discover a brilliant insight into human behavior. . . . Family Furnishings reminds us that Munro is our greatest contemporary short story writer.” —USA Today
“[An] extraordinary collection. . . . Munro seems to have gotten hold of our own darkest feelings about the people in our lives and transformed them, gloriously, into art.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“The preeminent short-fiction writer of her time. . . . Astonishing. . . . Stunning. . . . Remind[s] us that fiction, at its most profound and moving, is about human endurance, which makes it very much a reflection of reality.” —Los Angeles Times
“Munro’s literary genius for the short-story form has been widely deemed incomparable. The Canadian writer captures those small moments that reverberate through ordinary lives in meticulous prose. Her economy in words fashions a language that pierces the heart.” —New York Daily News
“These are human stories, and great ones. . . . Nobody can tell a tale, spin a character, break a heart, the way Alice Munro can.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Munro may have arrived at the end of her career, but her stories keep changing, as works of art tend to do. . . . Because Munro’s people often act unpredictably—they wind up doing things they hadn’t known they were going to do and startle themselves—the stories, even on repeated readings, retain their original suspense, their sense that anything can happen.” —The New York Times Book Review
“If there’s literary pleasure greater than reading Alice Munro, it must be rereading Alice Munro.” —The Seattle Times
“It is no exaggeration to state that Munro’s short stories are among the finest that have ever been written. She’s sure to endure alongside Poe, Hemingway and O’Connor. . . . She’s that rare writer who is able to match her early career achievements and even top them.” —The Dallas Morning News
“A writer who slowly fashioned a house of fiction large enough for both a room of her own and all of her family furnishings—ensuring that she herself had space to maneuver while others still had plenty of space to stretch out and live. Those others include us, her very lucky readers.” — The Philadelphia Inquirer
“Munro’s stories are remarkable for their evocation of places and the people who live there, for ambiguities, their ellipses, and their deftness. Her prose is lucid: ranging from delicacy to forthright attack, sometimes witty, ironic.” —The Washington Times
About the Author
Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published thirteen collections of stories and a novel. During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards, including two Giller Prizes, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Man Booker International Prize. In 2013 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s Magazine, The Paris Review, Granta, and many other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages.
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Series: Vintage InternationalPaperback: 784 pagesPublisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (September 15, 2015)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1101872357ISBN-13: 978-1101872352 Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 1.4 x 8 inches Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #25,933 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #790 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Short Stories & Anthologies > Short Stories #2744 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Literary #2812 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Women’s Fiction > Contemporary Women
My three favorite North American short story writers are John Cheever, Tobias Wolff, and Alice Munro. Of the three, Munro’s stories are a bigger challenge. Often her plot points are elliptical. She slowly and leisurely lets her genius unfold her sprawling stories, often close to 40 pages long, piece by piece, so that her style can present a challenge to one’s patience. But the patience pays off because more than Cheever and Wolff, Munro has this brilliant and rare gift to make a 30-40-page short story feel as if you’ve immersed yourself in a life with a sense of completeness that you could only imagine with a 400-page novel.
If you’re new to Munro, you might open this 600-page book and begin with some of her more accessible stories first:
“My Mother’s Dream”: An unusual point of view of a girl thinking back to her being a baby and almost dying after her father dies and family and friends converge on the grieving mother. It’s almost as if the first-person narrator, clearly too young as an infant to grasp the details of this period, gleans what she knows from family and friends when she gets into her teens.
“Family Furnishings”: A story about social class and the “city” vs. the “country,” this tale is about a larger than life character, the narrator’s older cousin Alfrida, who lives in the big city where she creates a squeaky-clean person as an advice columnist. The disparity between her newspaper persona and her gimlet-eyed cynical self is not only funny but is central to the story’s theme about the loss of innocence.
“The Bear Came Over the Mountain”: A story of a professor and his wife who succumbs to dementia and the complex, knotty love they have for each other even after the wife is institutionalized.
Like many other readers, I have always been in awe of Alice Munro, whose short stories are just so well-crafted that each of them sparkles like a little gem.
In collection after collection, her strength has always been taking ordinary human lives and extricating that one moment of revelation. In just a few beautifully written sentences, she’s able to define a person in a totally original way.
Take this description, from The Bear Came Over The Mountain: “Getting close to Marian would present a different problem. It would be like biting into a litchi nut. The flesh with its oddly artificial allure, its chemical taste and perfume, shallow over the extensive seed, the stone.”
Now this Nobel Laureate has assembled some of her most memorable stories from 1995-2014, with a forward from Jane Smiley. And it gives this reader yet one more reason to rejoice. In the words of Ms. Smiley, “Munro…has made of the short story something new, using precision of language and complexity of emotion to cut out the relaxed parts of the novel and focus on the essence of transformation.”
These are stories to savor, brimming with life and recreating the definition of what a short story is all about. Sometimes, she courageously turns the spotlight on her own life: The View from Castle Rock, for example, finds her mining her family history and meshing imagination and fact…the eponymous Family Furnishings reveals a young writer who steals the poignant, personal and painful history of an eccentric aunt to further her craft. Download Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014 – September 15, 2015 Free PDF
