While she was running away from him––now––Clark still kept his place in her life. Some critics believe that Munro’s strongest works are those which draw on her own small-town origins in western Ontario, stories of Jubilee, Tuppertown, Hanratty, Dalgleish. With nobody glowering over her, nobody's mood infecting her with misery.īut what would she care about? How would she know that she was alive? Jamieson might say––and as she herself might with satisfaction have said–– taking charge of her own life. And what was strange about it was that she was doing all this, she was riding on this bus in the hope of recovering herself.

She would only walk around, and open her mouth and speak, and do this and do that. The strange and terrible thing coming clear to her about that world of the future, as she now pictured it, was that she would not exist there.

Born in Huron County in southwestern Ontario, where the majority of her fiction is set, her work explores human interrelationships in a dynamic yet uncomplicated style. Selected Stories of Alice Munro, 1968-1994 by Alice Munro: 9780307814623 : Books WINNER OF THE 2013 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Spanning almost thirty years and settings that range from big cities to small towns and farmsteads of rural. Herself riding on the subway or streetcar, caring for new horses, talking to new people, living among hordes of people every day who were not Clark.Ī life, a place, chosen for that specific reason––that it would not contain Clark. The Canadian writer Alice Munro (born 1931) is considered to be one of the greatest masters of the short story narrative form.

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