Lives of Girls and Women (1971) II

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When I was browsing the library stacks the other day, looking for the next volume in Maya Angelou’s autobiography, I happened upon this: JoAnn McCaig’s Reading In: Alice Munro’s Archives. And isn’t that just how it happens? How stacks of library books get out of hand? But how could I

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Lives of Girls and Women (1971) I

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Early in Lives of Girls and Women, readers learn that Jubilee is "not part of town, but it was not part of the country either”. Del Jordan isn’t exactly sure where she belongs either. Readers of Dance of the Happy Shades will recognize Jubilee; some of its stories take place

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Dance of the Happy Shades (1968) V

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What is it about a title story? It always feels, to me, like the key to the collection. And while it’s true that sometimes a title story is my favourite in a collection, other times, as with “Dance of the Happy Shades”, I wondered why it was selected to bestow

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Persephones…and Alice Munro

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Reading in company. It’s always more fun, isn’t it? Not that a stack of Persephones and a stack of lemon cakes aren’t enjoyable in and of themselves. But there’s something about knowing that there are similar stacks of books and stacks of sweets at hand for other readers. That, just

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Alice Munro’s Dance of the Happy Shades (1968) IV

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Shifting past the halfway mark in this collection, I find myself as interested in drawing lines between stories as I am in following the lines drawn within the stories. And perhaps it’s partly because I have recently pulled my copy of The Lives of Girls and Women off my shelves

Alice Munro’s Dance of the Happy Shades (1968) IV2014-03-11T20:08:29-04:00
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