When Hazel Curtis travels to Scotland, she tells people that it was a trip that she and Jack had always planned to take together. 1990; Penguin, 1991 And now that she's a widow, Jack cannot contradict Hazel, speak out to say that he never wanted to take that
Some writers might take a book to do it. Carol Shields did, in Swann. Timothy Findley did, in The Wars. 1990; Penguin, 1991 Alice Munro takes a short story to build a life from fragments left behind. In this case, in "Meneseteung", the fragments are culled from a
As with "Friend of My Youth", the bulk of "Five Points" concerns a story told by one of the characters, Neil, who is speaking of events from his past, when he was a boy in British Columbia. 1990; Penguin, 1991 In both stories, the story rooted in Neil's
The title story of this collection begins with talk of an act being "too transparent in its hopefulness, too easy in its forgiveness". 1990; Penguin, 1991 On first reading, this seems a straightforward observation about the narrator's relationship with her mother. She has been dreaming of her mother
This the last of four stories published at the end of Dear Life under Finale, four works that are "not quite stories" but, rather, works "autobiographical in feeling, though not, sometimes, entirely so in fact. I believe they are the first and last -- and the closest -- things I
