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Genre Short story collection Originally published 2004 Original language English Country Canada | 3.7/5 Goodreads Media type Print (hardcover) Publisher McClelland & Stewart | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dear Life is a short story collection by Canadian writer Alice Munro, published in 2012 by McClelland and Stewart.
Contents
The book was to have been promoted in part by a reading at Toronto's International Festival of Authors, although the appearance was cancelled due to health concerns.
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Publication history
Most of the stories collected in Dear Life had previously been published elsewhere. Amundsen, Corrie, Dear Life, Gravel, Haven, and Leaving Maverly were all originally published in The New Yorker. Dolly was first published in Tin House.
Critical reception
Kate Kellaway in the Guardian describes these stories as "concise, subtle and masterly" noting that they have a "subtle, unshowy, covert brilliance".
Ruth Scurr, writing in the Telegraph, points to the autobiographical aspect of the collection and declares the collection to be "a subversive challenge to the idea of autobiography: a purposeful melding of fact fiction and feeling". The reviewer goes on to suggest the collection might be Munro's last, but if so would be a "spectacular" finale.