Hello Gentle Reader
After fourteen collections, and at the age of eighty one, Alice Munro has said, she’s done enough. Canada’s literary Grandmother has announced her retirement. Munro said that after winning the Trillium Prize, it was nice to go out with a bang.
“A little more special in that I'm probably not going to write any more. And, so, it's nice to go out with a bang.”
From the sounds of it; Munro has stated that one of the biggest reasons for her decision to retire is that she doesn’t wish to continue in the solidarity. She has a desire to being a bit more social.
“I'm delighted. Not that I didn't love writing, but I think you do get to a stage where you sort of think about your life in a different way. And perhaps, when you're my age, you don't wish to be alone as much as a writer has to be. It's like, at the wrong end of life, sort of becoming very sociable.”
Many thought in two-thousand and six that Alice Munro was done, with her collection “A View from Castle Rock,” – yet come two-thousand and nine Munro came out with a new collection “Too Much Happiness.” Then in two-thousand and twelve, Munro has come out with “Dear Life,” which I haven’t bought because I don’t like the cover art – the UK version is much nicer – but I don’t want to pay for international shipping. It seems though that Alice Munro, she’s written enough. Perhaps though this October a Nobel may role her way.
Regardless the short story writer has achieved Literary Sainthood. Proving time and time again, that the short story is not a less literary form; but just as strong as the novel. In that sense she has become “our Checkhov.” To which she has earned, and deserves her retirement.
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