Vintage Munro Classics A mild-mannered collection agent receives

A mild-mannered collection agent receives a visit from a giant talking frog who enlists his help in saving Tokyo from destruction

he and the narrator recount for each other moments of joy and oblivion

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can see into the future—to a dark age of ignorance

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Vintage Munro Classics A mild-mannered collection agent receivesAlice Munro is often able to say more in thirty pages than an ordinary novelist is capable of in three hundred. She is a virtuoso of the elliptical . . . the master of the contemporary short story. . . . Munro, like few others, [has] come close to solving the greatest mystery of them all: the human heart and its caprices.From the Presentation Speech, Nobel Prize in Literature 2013 Vintage Munro includes stories from throughout Alice Munros storied