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Loading... De manen van Jupiter (original 1982; edition 1982)by Alice Munro
Work InformationThe Moons of Jupiter by Alice Munro (1982)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Beautifully written short stories. I like that they’re in Canada not the US, although I think there isn’t that much difference in the stories. I very much like Munro’s perspective in time, she writes a lot about youngish people but she brings the perspective of someone approaching maturity. I think she was in her 50’s when she wrote these. ( ) What I love about Munro and the stories in this collection is how she transports me so easily into the rich mental landscape of her characters. Something about her work seems qualitatively head and shoulders above other fiction I've read. Each story feeds my brain as if it were an exquisitely prepared meal. 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. Many of the men appear to be jerks but love is blind and irrational so that hardly matters. 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). Here, she also excels at the more subtle and intricate interior psychological landscape of the heart, mind, and soul. And some stories had sexual explicitness that I had heretofore not been aware of. Munro is not a prude. 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. 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. Aunque Las lunas de Júpiter no es el libro más reciente de Munro y refleja, según parece, una etapa de su obra que la autora canadiense ya superó, muestra un talento y una atención al detalle enormes. Todos los personajes de los cuentos están perfectamente bien construidos y resultan interesantes incluso en las narraciones más flojas. La construcción de sus cuentos parece calculada y bien trabajada. Excelente autora, bien merecedora a mi parecer de los galardones que se le han otorgado. Mis cuentos favoritos del volumen fueron: "Prue", "Accidente", "La señora Cross y la Señora Kidd" y "Las lunas de Júpiter". no reviews | add a review
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The characters who populate an Alice Munro story live and breathe. Passions hopelessly conceived, affections betrayed, marriages made and broken: the joys, fears, loves, and awakenings of women echo throughout these twleve unforgettable stories, laying bare the unexpected and yet inescapable pain of human contact. No library descriptions found. |
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