“Bardon Bus” Alice Munro

2014-03-20T20:06:18-04:00

"I come of straightened people, madly secretive, tenacious, economical." The first segment of the story introduces the reader to the narrator of "Bardon Bus" in a way which recalls other heroines in other stories. "Like them, I could make a little go a long way." (If you've recently read Who

“Bardon Bus” Alice Munro2014-03-20T20:06:18-04:00

“Accident” Alice Munro

2014-03-20T20:06:12-04:00

"Frances is loitering by a second-floor window of the high school in Hanratty, on an afternoon in early December. It is 1943." Loitering: it's a significant word. There is something unsanctioned about her presence there. And, yet, she is a high-school teacher. But she has no business being on the

“Accident” Alice Munro2014-03-20T20:06:12-04:00

“The Turkey Season” Alice Munro

2014-03-20T20:05:12-04:00

Whether it's Alva's job in a summer resort in "Sunday Afternoon" or Edie looking after the kids and doing what needs doing in "How I Met My Husband", Alice Munro captures the twinned knowingness and vulnerability of a girl in her first job. Few other authors (Alissa York would be

“The Turkey Season” Alice Munro2014-03-20T20:05:12-04:00

“Dulse” Alice Munro

2014-03-20T20:06:49-04:00

Originally published almost exactly 32 years ago, the events depicted in "Dulse" could have taken place 32 years prior and will, likely, still ring true 32 years hence. Lydia is a woman alone, not freshly alone -- for she has been divorced for nine years -- but self-consciously alone. Something

“Dulse” Alice Munro2014-03-20T20:06:49-04:00

“Chaddeleys and Flemings” Alice Munro

2014-03-20T20:07:01-04:00

The first story in The Moons of Jupiter is a two-parter, the first originally published in "Chatelaine" and the second in "Saturday Night", in 1979. In later collections, interconnected stories were not necessarily set apart within a collection, but these two stories are exceptionally tight-knit. And because of this, with

“Chaddeleys and Flemings” Alice Munro2014-03-20T20:07:01-04:00
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