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Lives Of Girls and Women is the intensely readable, touching, and very funny story of Del Jordan, a young woman who journeys from the carelessness of childhood through uneasy adolescence in search of love and sexual experience. The only novel from Alice Munro is an insightful, honest book, "autobiographical in form but not in fact," that chronicles a young girl's growing up in rural Ontario in the 1940s. As Del dreams of becoming famous, suffers embarrassment about her mother, endures the humiliation of her body's insistent desires, and tries desperately to fall in love, she grapples with the crises that mark the passage to womanhood. In her distinctive literary style, Munro presents a thought-provoking cycle of two women coping with the claustrophobic habits and norms of small-town life competing with their greater ambitions and desires to leave. "Alice Munro once observed: “The complexity of things — the things within things — just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple”... That is also a perfect description of Ms Munro’s quietly radiant short stories - stories that have established her as one of the foremost practitioners of the form... Fluent and decept

Who reads Lives of Girls and Women : A Novel?

Author

Munro, Alice

Publisher

Vintage International, Vintage Books, a division of Random House

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307814555

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Short Stories, Literary Fiction

Rating

4 / 5 (7,176 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14