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Loading... Dance of the Happy Shades: And Other Storiesby Alice Munro
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This is my first expierence of Alice Munro - an author I had heard good things of previously. These stories are beautifully written. Each story is satisfying, with characters you can't help but care about. This is something I don't always find with short stories, that the reader is able to step into the world the author is writing about within just a few pages. However each of these stories is set in the same sort of community, and so it becomes easy to step into the lives of these rural peoples. I will certainly be looking out for more by Alice Munro. (  ) Heaven-Ali | Jul 26, 2009 |  It's been said a million times, but Alice Munro really is the master of the short story. As this was her first collection, it was a little rougher than some of her more recent works, but it was great nonetheless. There was an ongoing undercurrent of aging and death that was sometimes a bit difficult to read (and a little creepy) but it was still fantastic. ( ) kjhill45 | Feb 23, 2009 | Collection of short stories. Alice Munro has somehow captured experiences that I'm sure I could have lived. Absolutely amazing. (  ) merry10 | Apr 28, 2008 | This is, I believe, Munro's first book of stories, and it's excellent. Munro writes with depth and assurance about the plain, nondescript people around us in small towns in the US and Canada, giving them dimension, dignity, and humanity. ( ) abirdman | Aug 14, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0099273772, Paperback)In these fifteen short stories--her eighth collection of short stories in a long and distinguished career--Alice Munro conjures ordinary lives with an extraordinary vision, displaying the remarkable talent for which she is now widely celebrated. Set on farms, by river marshes, in the lonely towns and new suburbs of western Ontario, these tales are luminous acts of attention to those vivid moments when revelation emerges from the layers of experience that lie behind even the most everyday events and lives."Virtuosity, elemental command, incisive like a diamond, remarkable: all these descriptions fit Alice Munro."--Christian Science Monitor "How does one know when one is in the grip of art--of a major talent?....It is art that speaks from the pages of Alice Munro's stories."--Wall Street Journal (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:16 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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