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by Alice Munro
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lysdexic
lysdexic rated it 6 years ago
Quite extraordinary.
Merle
Merle rated it 7 years ago
This is my first Alice Munro, and it clearly deserves its literary accolades. It’s a short story collection that follows the same characters more or less chronologically through their lives: a girl and later woman named Rose, and her stepmother, Flo. The characters are certainly believable, and I be...
Book Reviews for the Semi-Literate
Book Reviews for the Semi-Literate rated it 10 years ago
I decided to read a work by Alice Munro purely because she won the Nobel Prize for Literature this year. I came in with modest expectations, since there are many past winners who I'm no admirer of. Sadly, even those were not met. The book follows Rose, a girl growing up in severe poverty in the s...
Chris Blocker
Chris Blocker rated it 15 years ago
Munro is a fabulous storyteller. Her characters and language are absolutely radiant. I really loved this collection/novel and look forward to reading more of her work.
Expendable Mudge Muses Aloud
Expendable Mudge Muses Aloud rated it 15 years ago
Rating: 2* of fiveI hate Flo, and dislike Rose, and can think of no possible reason for anyone to read more than the Pearl Rule requires or the first three stories, whichever comes first in your edition.Lovely, lovely sentences telling deadly little quotidian stories about dreary, slatternly people....
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