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Nov 10, 2012 Rosana rated it it was amazing

Shelves: re-reads, canadian, short-stories, 2013, bookish-s13-challenge, 2024

This is Alice Munro at her best. I read somewhere that the stories in this book are shorter than most of her other short-stories and it is true, we are told only the most essential, and then, the amazing thing is what is not told. What, as the reader, we are left to wonder.

I think I did this book a disservice though. I could not avoid reading one story after the other; finishing one just in time to start another. I used to be a smoker, many years ago when it was still fashionable to do so. But ...more

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Dec 28, 2012 Lise Petrauskas rated it really liked it

Shelves: short-stories, 21st-century-fiction

Alice Munro is such an able writer and her stories are so easy to consume that I find it hard to be critical. There is always some surprise, whether it is created through the way the story is told or by an unexpected twist in the plot. This particular collection, whether because of my mood or because the form is just what it is—short—was unsatisfying in places. As some of these stories ended I found myself having no emotion about the outcome. Part of that is indeed the fault of the form, but I t ...more

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Apr 12, 2015 Lauren rated it liked it · review of another edition

I've read and enjoyed a number of Alice Munro's books. This book is not quite as engaging as some of her earlier works. There's a lot of *shrug* material in here. But there are some worthwhile gems, particularly Train, and the set of four autobiographical stories at the end of the book. ...more

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