Series ✦ Penny’s Take
New Selected Stories
Alice Munro · 2011
92/100
👍 Worth It
Alice Munro is simply one of the finest short story writers in the history of the form, and this collection pulls from the peak of her powers — stories like 'The Bear Came Over the Mountain' and 'Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage' carry the compression and emotional weight of full novels. The Times, the New Statesman, and a Nobel Prize all point in the same direction. This is the rare case where the critical consensus understates the achievement.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: mature themes including sexual desire, marital infidelity — adult readers only. We still scored it 92; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety72
substance95
craft97
originality95
accuracy95
hype90
age-fit85
human-eye95
Penny’s verdict92
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