![]() ![]() ![]() All take you into the moment all recommended. In "Fits", a woman finds her neighbours' bodies after a murder/suicide pact, but the real story is how the details become known to her community and her husband. ![]() "Dance of the Happy Shades" features the discomfort afflicting the comfortable resulting from a musical performance by children with special needs. Literature This first-ever selection of Alice Munros stories sums up her. Spanning her last five collections and bringing together her finest work from the past fifteen years, this new selection of Alice Munro's stories infuses everyday lives with a wealth of. "Carried Away" is an intricate tale of a librarian, a soldier, and a decapitation. "Postcard", from which I've taken an excerpt above, is a particularly good one told by a woman in a doomed relationship that everyone else, including the reader, can see isn't happening. These are selected stories from her output in 1968-1994, and they are all good, some of them brillinat, observation of life in southern Ontario (particularly for women) over the decades. You may have noticed that I've been on a bit of an Alice Munro binge over the last year, generated in the first place by enthusiasm from my wife. ![]()
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