![]() ![]() Sometimes you can clearly say, "this story seems to be about X." Other times, like any great piece of art (Munro won the Noble Prize in literature in 2013), you may scratch your head unsure exactly what the piece is about but glad you went along for the ride. With her father in the hospital and her own daughter absent. ![]() In each of the stories you do feel like you get a good feel for the types of people in them, whether the central character (always a woman, sometimes young, sometimes middle-aged, often a parent, frequently divorced, in and out of relationships) or a love interest. The Moons of Jupiter (The Moons of Jupiter, 1982) A good primer for how Munro’s stories often look one way but feel another. ![]() ![]() And some stories had sexual explicitness that I had heretofore not been aware of. Here, she also excels at the more subtle and intricate interior psychological landscape of the heart, mind, and soul. Synopsis Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature The characters who populate an Alice Munro story live and breathe. Munro paints the usual vivid exterior landscapes of rural and urban Canada from coast to coast in times that vary from that of her childhood before and after World War Two straight up through the present (for this collection late 70s to early 80s). Many of the men appear to be jerks but love is blind and irrational so that hardly matters. This particular set of short stories by Alice Munro coheres to some extent thematically in their focus on women of all ages and their romantic entanglements with men. ![]()
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