Dear Life
The fourteen stories in this brilliant collection show Alice Munro coming home to southwestern Ontario, with Toronto looming on the horizon. Even “To Reach Japan,” where a Vancouver mother takes her young daughter across the country by train, ends in Toronto. On that journey, different kinds of passion produce surprises, both on the journey and at its end. The range of storytellers is astonishing, as we hear the young voices of women recalling their teenage years and the equally convincing voice of an old woman fighting Alzheimer’s. Margaret Atwood once shrewdly noted that “pushing the sexual boundaries is distinctly thrilling for many a Munro woman,” and very few of these stories deal with men and women in sedate, conventional domestic settings. Munro…
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October 8, 2013
ALICE MUNRO grew up in Wingham, Ontario and attended the University of Western Ontario (now Western University), studying journalism and English. Her first collection of stories was published in 1968 as Dance of the Happy Shades, which garnered much acclaim and won the Governor General’s Award for English fiction that year. Three years later, she published her only novel, Lives of Girls and Women. Over the next few decades, she published many more short story collections, including Who Do You Think You Are?; The Moons of Jupiter; Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, from which a story was later adapted into the two-time Academy Award–winning movie, Away from Her; Runaway; and The View from Castle Rock. Her stories appeared regularly in…
Dance of the Happy Shades
Alice Munro
Who Do You Think You Are?
Alice Munro
Lives of Girls and Women
Alice Munro
Julieta (Movie Tie-In Edition)
Alice Munro
Family Furnishings
Alice Munro
A Wilderness Station
Alice Munro
Dear Life
Alice Munro
Too Much Happiness
Alice Munro
Friend of My Youth
Alice Munro
The Progress of Love
Alice Munro
Runaway
Alice Munro
The Love of a Good Woman
Alice Munro
Open Secrets
Alice Munro