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Where to start. Munro had me hooked in the first paragraph: "We spent days along the Wawanash River, helping Uncle Benny fish....
He was not our uncle, or anybody's."
"He was not our uncle, or anybody's." That line is so short and so brilliant--can't you just picture Uncle Benny in your head right now? Munro does not mock the characters in this small-town story the way Flannery O'Connor might.
Indeed Del Jordan, our young narrator, has never really left the town of Jubilee and a part of her never ...more
He was not our uncle, or anybody's."
"He was not our uncle, or anybody's." That line is so short and so brilliant--can't you just picture Uncle Benny in your head right now? Munro does not mock the characters in this small-town story the way Flannery O'Connor might.
Indeed Del Jordan, our young narrator, has never really left the town of Jubilee and a part of her never ...more
Better than a four for me. The writing is gorgeous.
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