![]() ![]() A cup of coffee balances on her knees while she remembers the stifling atmosphere of 1950s Canada. She sits tidily on the sofa, girlish yet ladylike with a halo of silvery hair and careful make-up. ![]() John Updike and AS Byatt have compared her with Chekhov and Flaubert.Īll the more remarkable is the fact that her first collection was published when she was 37, the result of 15 years of thinking and reading, of sending off manuscripts and them arriving back in her mailbox a few weeks later. Jonathan Franzen has argued in the New York Times that she's 'the best fiction writer working in North America'. Her latest book of short stories, Runaway, (Chatto and Windus, £15.99) has been hailed as her best yet. ![]() She's not sure if she'll enjoy the fuss: she must make a speech and she's cooled on the silvery dress she's brought with her.įamously unshowy and private, the last 18 months have exposed her to a flurry of media attention. She's 73 now and later in the evening on the day we meet she'll receive yet another literary award at a dinner in New York. ![]()
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