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A new collection of short stories from the widely acclaimed mistress of the form, Dear Life is subtle and shows Alice Munro's simple handling of the language. Summary of the Book Alice Munro's stories touch her all too familiar environment around Lake Huron in Ontario, and explore the moment that life is illuminated. In one story she tells readers about a seventy-five year old woman who believes her eighty-three year old husband is about to leave her for an old flame. In another, set in a TB sanitarium, where a young woman who takes a job teaching the children falls in love with the sanitarium's doctor whose own opinion is masked in mystery. Munro's writing carries a stoic and autobiographical tone at times, showing readers her capacity for the art of short story writing. About Alice Munro Alice Ann Munro is a Canadian writer. She is best known for her short story collections: Too Much Happiness, The View from Castle Rock, Runaway, The Love of a Good Woman and Away From Her. Alice Munro's contributions to the field of short stories awarded her the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013 and the Man Booker Prize in the same year.