First short-story collections Munro had begun writing stories as a teenager, and she persevered in her attempt to establish herself as a writer despite years of rejection from publishers and the limitations imposed on her career by the responsibilities of marriage and motherhood. Her first collecti...
Free Essays from Studymode | Alice Munro's collection of short stories in Open Secrets is one example of her focus on women, ordinary women, and the lives...
Munro, Alice,1931–, Canadian writer, b. Wingham, Ont., as Alice Ann Laidlaw. Much acclaimed as one of the finest contemporary short-story writers, Munro is known for quiet, insightfully realistic, and irony-tinged works that deal with daily life and are written in elegantly sharp, dispassi...
Note: Back in 2013, when Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize in Literature, we published a post featuring 20 short stories written by Munro. Today, with the sad news that Alice Munro has passed away, at the age of 92, we’re bringing...
Free Essays from Studymode | Alice Munro's collection of short stories in Open Secrets is one example of her focus on women, ordinary women, and the lives...
Alice Munro Short Stories, Cont’d “Free Radicals” Nita, sixty-two, lives alone now that her husband, Rich, who was almost twenty years older, has died. They thought she would be the first to die, as she was diagnosed with cancer. Sympathy for her has fallen off because Rich was bu...
What Alice Munro also captures so well, common to almost anyone who has ever disclosed themselves as a writer: The barrage of free ‘ideas’ from people who would write something down themselves, if only they had the time. But writers are never short on ideas. The issue is always the inv...
Munro replied, “I don’t care about that. I want people to find not so much inspiration as great joy. I want them to think of my books as related to their own lives in ways.” 1. Why did Munro feel free to write while living in rural areas? A. She was inspired by rural ...
Beginning in 2011, I started to read/re-read all of Alice Munro's short stories in their collected form. Please feel free to check the schedule and join in, for the series, or for a single story. Sometimes the posts (particularly early in the project)
Alice Munro is a subtle writer and does not set Meriel up as an unhappy housewife who needs to really bust free of her oppressive life. (In contrast, seeThelma & Louise.) In fact, she’s quite content being married to Pierre. The one-time-only affair she chooses (at some point) to...