Course Description

Instructor: Nancy Purdon, BA, MA American Studies

How has Alice Munro come to be named the preeminent short-fiction writer of our time, to be referred to as “our Chekov,� to publish 14 story collections and to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013? This course will read and discuss closely the best of Munro’s stories, with an eye toward discovering her stamp on this genre and the nature of her particular genius. Please purchase the following text book: Family Furnishings: Selected Stories (Munro). Please read the first story, ‘The Love of a Good Woman,’ prior to the first class. We will have a good deal of discussion in the class and your participation is important.

Nancy was part of a book discussion group now in its 50th year that nourished her interest in literature.