Alice Munro has identified ‘The Peace of Utrecht’ as her first ‘personal’ story. Written in 1959 soon after her mother’s death, it deals with painful autobiographical material, and marks her movement away from writing ‘exercises’ in the style of other, admired.

Alice Munro's territory is the farms and semi-rural towns of south-western Ontario. In these dazzling stories she deals with the self-discovery of adolescence, the joys and pains of love and the despair and guilt of those caught in a narrow existence. And in sensitively exploring the lives of ordinary men and women, she makes us aware of the universal nature of their fears Alice Munro's territory is the farms and semi-rural towns of south-western Ontario. In these dazzling stories she deals with the self-discovery of adolescence, the joys and pains of love and the despair and guilt of those caught in a narrow existence. And in sensitively exploring the lives of ordinary men and women, she makes us aware of the universal nature of their fears, sorrows and aspirations. Intro (this piece inspired the title story): Does anyone remember Steve’s review of Lydia Davis’s when he said “Lydia Davis shits out tiny nuggets of pure golden prose and says 'oh, this old thing’'?”I didn’t exactly agree with him on the, but I would love to steal that quote and use it in reference to Alice Munro. Alice Munro is a master story teller.

No, she didn’t twist my brain into knots and exasperate me. No, she Intro (this piece inspired the title story): Does anyone remember Steve’s review of Lydia Davis’s when he said “Lydia Davis shits out tiny nuggets of pure golden prose and says 'oh, this old thing’'?”I didn’t exactly agree with him on the, but I would love to steal that quote and use it in reference to Alice Munro. Alice Munro is a master story teller. No, she didn’t twist my brain into knots and exasperate me.

No, she didn’t leave me tingling from titillating tales. She didn’t make my soul sink into some dark place.

She simply tells great stories. I had been unfamiliar with Alice Munro prior to my Summer of Women read-a-thon. Dance of the Happy Shades is her first collection of short stories (Goodreads, it is NOT her 8th collection) and is the winner of the Governor General’s Award (a big deal up there in Canada). Alice Munro has been touted as the greatest living short story writer. If not for the words containing a superfluous ‘u’ here and there (colo urful, flavo urful), I would have been convinced Munro was writing about the American south. In fact, her writing reminded me a bit of Flannery O’Connor as she expertly explored the life of the “every (wo)man.” This is such a heartfelt collection and I’m so happy to have stumbled upon it. It was one of those serendipitous moments: days before I saw it in the two dollar bin at the book store, Steve recommended I try some Alice Munro.

Don’t you love those happy little coincidences? Metti oli serial song free download. 'She sat with her legs folded under her looking out at the road where she might walk now in any direction she liked, and the world which lay flat and accessible and full of silence in front of her.' (from A Trip To the Coast) Outro. Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro I really liked this book. I liked it a LOT. Ok I loved it! I’ve been meaning to read work by Alice Munro for a while so when I found a second hand copy of Dance of the Happy Shades for a few dollars, I picked it up.

This book is a Governor General’s Award winning collection of short stories. The following quote by Hugh Garner in the forward to this book, pretty much, in my opinion, describes the quality and essence of Ms. Munro’s writing. “The second-rate writ Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro I really liked this book. I liked it a LOT. Ok I loved it! I’ve been meaning to read work by Alice Munro for a while so when I found a second hand copy of Dance of the Happy Shades for a few dollars, I picked it up.

This book is a Governor General’s Award winning collection of short stories. The following quote by Hugh Garner in the forward to this book, pretty much, in my opinion, describes the quality and essence of Ms. Munro’s writing. “The second-rate writers, the writers manques, the professional-commerical writers, find it impossible to write about ordinary people in ordinary situations, living ordinary lives, and make the people, their lives and their situations not only plausible and pleasurable but artistically alive.