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In this stunning tenth collection of stories from Canada's matchless chronicler, Alice Munro, lives come into focus through single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface. The past, as Alice Munro's characters discover, is made up not only of what is remembered but also of what isn't. The past is there, just out of the picture, but if memories haven't been savoured, recalled in the mind and boxed away, it's as if they have never been - until a moment when the pieces of the jigsaw re-form suddenly, sometimes pleasurably but more often painfully. Women look back at their young selves, at first marriages made when they were naive and trusting, at husbands and their difficult, demanding little ways. There is in this new collection an underlying heartbreak, a sense of regret in her characters for what might have been, for a fork in the road not taken, a memory suppressed in an act of prudent emotional housekeeping. But at the same time, there is hope, there are second chances."Munro’s nine tales are set mostly in her native Ontario or in western Canada, and realized with steely precise statement and in meticulously deployed specific local detail... We wor

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Author

Munro, Alice

Publisher

Vintage Digital

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307426192

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Short Stories