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As much as I love Alice Munro, most of these stories just miss something for me. What I tend to enjoy most about her stories is the way Munro picks a moment in time that completely changes everything for a character--without telling the reader exactly what the ramifications will be. Maybe it's because each of these stories has a similar morbid end that it all become too predictable? In some cases, I almost felt like a less twisted ending would have suited the story better, and the sadness was ad
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Not my favorite of Munro's collections. I noticed that three of the stories involved a male woodworker of some kind, and two of those had to do with extramarital affairs - like Munro had some idea bubbling around and tried to get it out a few times but never quite hit the nail on the head. Or maybe she did and these stories were just too opaque for me to understand. They just didn't buzz the way the stories in Hateship Friendship Courtship Loveship Marriage do.
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Dec 23, 2009
Carly Thompson
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it was ok
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While I have enjoyed Alice Munro's short stories in the past, this collection left little impression on me. I would recommend reading "Fiction" which was very good, but most of the other stories were forgettable or tediously sordid.
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So glad she changed her mind about that whole retirement thing!
Wow. Alice Munro goes to Vancouver!
Dec 04, 2011
Heather
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