Thank You for Visiting: Essays on Alice Munro's Works III

Thank You for Visiting: Essays on Alice Munro's Works III, the third volume of essays issued by Guernica Editions in honour of Munro's work reveals, like the earlier collections Alice Munro Country and Alice Munro Everlasting, how critical writing can be not only as perceptive but also as creative as the stories it studies. Included here are important new works by Munro’s most distinguished critics: among them, Catherine Sheldrick Ross, J.R. (Tim) Struthers, and Robert Thacker. Featured, too, are other exciting contributions such as Munro’s Canadian publisher Douglas Gibson’s investigation of the backgrounds three centuries ago in Scotland of the ancestors of both Alice Munro and Robertson Davies, along with Munro’s American editor Ann Close’s observations about the great satisfactions of editing decade after decade of books by Munro.

Thank You for Visiting also includes important and penetrating essays by Munro’s good friend Margaret Atwood, by the French Munro critic Corinne Bigot, by the British Munro critic Ailsa Cox, by the Canadian Munro critic Dennis Duffy, by the Scottish Munro critic Isla Duncan, by the distinguished American short story theorist and critic Charles E. May, and by the distinguished Canadian writer and critic and book editor John Metcalf. Featured, too, is a series of new essays by critics Paul Barrett, J.R. (Tim) Struthers, Ryan Porter, Alyda Faber, William Butt, and Robert Thacker about Munro’s arguably most important, most enjoyable, but often neglected title, the book about her Scottish and Canadian ancestors, her Southwestern Ontario childhood, and her development as a writer, The View from Castle Rock.