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Munro, the quintessential New Yorker short-story writer, peoples these exquisite tales with sad, lonely eccentrics leading lives of quiet self-deception. Her heroines are often troubled souls with the unforgiving task of fitting into the rigorously confining community that spawned them (the town of Carstairs, the Winesburg, Ohio, of western Canada), occasioning minor acts of rebellion and sometimes even acts of violence. Insurmountable obstacles seem to inhibit even the most simple communication--words fail to form, letters never arrive (or they do), strokes paralyze speech. Society seems to stand on the most tenuous of foundations, one based on "gossip, rumor, the coldhearted thrill of catastrophe." With the poise and self-confidence of a true master of her craft, Munro presents stories laden with mysteries that are gradually revealed and some that remain obscured by ambiguity and time. A teenage girl vanishes into thin air; a jilted women stalks her ex-lover to the far reaches of Australia; a good Christian vandalizes the home of an old neighbor. Munro expertly captures the vagaries of history and geography in this satisfying and immensely pleasurable collection. Benjamin Segedin
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With a few strokes of her pen, Munro (Friend of My Youth, 1990) has the unerring ability to familiarize us with a foreign country or the entire life of another person. Even if you've already read these latest stories in the New Yorker, you'll want to luxuriate in their gorgeous prose again and again. Munro's women must take repeated flight from the harshness of their realities--bad spinsterhood, worse marriages--into their imaginations, where wrongs are alternately redressed or allowed to fester into self-doubt and guilt. Louisa, the protagonist of ``Carried Away,'' is a small Canadian town's lonely librarian who receives an unexpected letter (one of many tantalizing missives sent and received in this complex, multilayered collection) from the equally desolate Jack, a WW I soldier whom she has never met but who remembers her from the library and woos her through the mail. After the war, he never introduces himself in person, and she reads in the newspaper of his betrayal and marriage to another woman. Jack continues to be the obsession of her thoughts and actions when his head is severed from his body in a horrific accident at the piano factory where he works and Louisa plunges into a ``normal'' life and marries the factory's owner. Years later, when an elderly Louisa thinks she is having a conversation with an elderly Jack in town, we realize that Jack's death or even Jack himself may be a figment of her imagination. Similarly, we aren't quite sure if an old bag lady in Victoria, B.C., was kidnapped in her youth by Albanian tribesmen (``An Albanian Virgin''), if a woman in the 1850s Canadian wilderness actually murdered her husband, who may or may not have been abusing her (``A Wilderness Station''), or if a teenager who disappeared from a hike was murdered, kidnapped, or simply ran off with a guy she had the hots for (``Open Secrets''). In Munro's hands, fact is a stepsister to fiction and reality may have nothing in common with life's truths. Storytelling made essential by one of the true pros. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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I don't recognize Munro's work in the reviews (editorial and customer) I've read here. Are these stories about women? Are they heavy and soporific? Not in my view. For the most part, I see loving, humorous looks at a piece of geography and its inhabitants, stories which are beautifully written, tightly woven, relaxed, and full of delicious discoveries about people and places. Lots of short stories end with a bang and then they are... over. Not Munro's. Hers never glib, never lazy. They are daring, warming, readable and re-rereadable.
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In "Open Secrets", Munroe tends to delve deep beneath the surface of women's lives. The stories contain intimate descriptions of feelings that many women try to hide, or even deny. The stories are classified as being "short", however the emotions that are brought forth through these words tell a tale that may soothe the soul for a lifetime. In "A Real Life", Dorrie is depicted as a sort of wild woman who shoots rabbits for food and fur, yet still remains dignified; in "Open Secrets", Maureen is a woman who marries her much older husband because she truly loves him, despite his stroke, but does he love her; finally, in "The Albanian Virgin", Charlotte and her strange husband Gjurdhi are presented, both live eccentric lives and leave a distinct impression on those that they meet. "Open Secrets" is a book made for women who want to explore their souls, and are not afraid to find what lies within. Once again, Alice Munroe has truly captured what is is to be "woman"!
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In these not-so-short stories whole lives seem to be revealed. I must have read "The Albanian Virgin" "Open Secrets" and "Carried Away" half a dozen times each over the past few years--and each time I get something new out of it.
She does not fall in line with what we are told a short story should be. Some people may find this maddening; I found it fascinating.
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Horrible
I really wish that college English professors would quit trying to force-feed us this crap just because they like it. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 7. Mai 1999 veröffentlicht
Humane, intelligent, and sleep-inducing
I forced myself to keep reading. Taken as a group, these stories had the effect of a big ol' midwestern family reunion; congenial, good folks, but the talk is about the weather,... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 10. April 1998 veröffentlicht
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