Themes of heartbreak and the sadness of women aging dominate this collection: in ``The Stone in the Field,'''' maiden aunts inhabit a farmhouse, dreading human contact; in ``The Turkey Season,'''' a girl paid to gut turkeys observes the sexual carryings-on of adults. According to PW , ``The writer''s questioning memory gives us sharp flashes of reality that are so vividly recalled they permit us to live another life for a moment.''''
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Review
"Munro is
內容簡介:
In these piercingly lovely and endlessly surprising stories by one of the most acclaimed current practitioners of the art of fiction, many things happen: there are betrayals and reconciliations, love affairs consummated and mourned.
關於作者:
Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published eleven new collections of stories-Dance of the Happy Shades; Something I''ve Been Meaning to Tell You; The Beggar Maid; The Moons of Jupiter; The Progress of Love; Friend of My Youth; Open Secrets; The Love of a Good Woman; Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage; Runaway; and a volume of Selected Stories-as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women. During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including the Man Booker International Prize, three of Canada''s Governor General''s Literary Awards and two of its Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, England''s W. H. Smith Book Award, the United States'' National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Edward MacDowell Medal in literature. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages.Alice Munro divides her time between Clinton, Ontario, near Lake Huron, and Comox, British Columbia.