Alice Munro has long been heralded for her penetrating, lyrical prose, and in “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” -- the basis for Sarah Polley’s film Away from Her -- her prodigious talents are once again on display. As she follows Grant, a retired professor whose wife, Fiona, begins gradually to lose her memory and drift away from him, we slowly see how a lifetime of intimate details can create a marriage, and how mysterious the bonds of love really are.
"Munro has a strong claim tp being the best fiction writer now working in North America."
--Jonathan Frenzen, The New York Times Book Review--
"Munro is the illusionist whose trick cna never be exposed. And that is because there is no smoke, there are no mirrors. Munro really does know magic: how to summon the spirits and the emotions that animate our lives."
--The Washington Post--
"Nothing in a Munro story ever feels contrived...[She] sings, and her woman are heroic. They endure the lives produced by their choices and the fates, and they endure in the mind of the reader."
--The Boston Globe--
"No one working today can write more convincingly about 'the progress of love' than Alice Munro."
--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times--