Dance of the Happy Shades: And Other Stories
Alice Munro's territory is the farms and semi-rural tows of south-western Ontario. In these powerful tales she deals with the self-discovery of adolescence, the joys and pains of love and the despair and guilt of those caught in a narrow existence. And in sensitively exploring the lives of...
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Alice Munro's territory is the farms and semi-rural tows of south-western Ontario. In these powerful tales she deals with the self-discovery of adolescence, the joys and pains of love and the despair and guilt of those caught in a narrow existence. And in sensitively exploring the lives of ordinary men and women, she makes us aware of the universal nature of their fears, sorrows and aspirations.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780679781516 (067978151X)
ASIN: 067978151X
Publish date: August 11th 1998
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
http://lolantaczyta.wordpress.com/2013/11/26/taniec-szczesliwych-cieni-alice-munro/
When I found out I'd be moving to southwest Ontario, I thought I should finally read some Alice Munro and probably start with her first collection. It took a few tries, but I eventually got past the first story after about a year and was already settled in Ontario. The prose, I suppose, is near flaw...
Alice Munro's first short story collection so she's not quite yet the master she'll be soon, but even then the stories are excellent.
56 years ago
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