“Hired Girl” Alice Munro

2017-07-25T11:21:38-04:00

In Alice Munro's first collection, Dance of the Happy Shades, readers meet Alva in "Sunday Afternoon". Alva is the hired girl for the Gannetts, who expect that she will dutifully perform in their home and, then, travel with them later in the summer to their parents' island in Georgian Bay.

“Hired Girl” Alice Munro2017-07-25T11:21:38-04:00

“Lying Under the Apple Tree” Alice Munro

2017-07-25T11:26:36-04:00

Whether and how a girl rode a bicycle mattered a great deal in the 1950s in southwestern Ontario, for the young Alice Munro. 2006; Vintage, 2007 "We lived just beyond the town limits, so if I showed up riding a bicycle—and particularly this bicycle—it would put me in

“Lying Under the Apple Tree” Alice Munro2017-07-25T11:26:36-04:00

“Fathers” Alice Munro

2017-07-25T11:25:29-04:00

For readers familiar with Alice Munro's most recent collection, Dear Life, the title of this story will immediately recall "Night", which she described as being "not quite" a story about her relationship with her father. Vintage, 2006 "Night" is part of a group of four tales, which she feels are

“Fathers” Alice Munro2017-07-25T11:25:29-04:00

“Working for a Living” Alice Munro

2017-07-25T11:24:22-04:00

Many of the themes which resurface in Alice Munro's fiction play an important role in "Working for a Living". 2006; Vintage, 2008 One of the first which strikes readers is the question of town versus country, which plays such a predominant role in both Lives of Girls and

“Working for a Living” Alice Munro2017-07-25T11:24:22-04:00

“The Wilds of Morris Township” Alice Munro

2020-10-01T12:47:59-04:00

This Alice Munro story might serve as a sixteen-page synposis for why some high-school students came to hate the idea of reading Canadian authors. McClelland & Stewart, 2006 If you weren't raised on Laura Ingalls Wilder's books? If you weren't an obsessive listener to weekly episodes of Winter Without Salt read aloud

“The Wilds of Morris Township” Alice Munro2020-10-01T12:47:59-04:00
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