Alice Munro reads one of her prominent short stories, "Friend of My Youth"
Reading Tip from Alice Munro
Writers often think that their most recent work is the best. Therefore, she recommends reading Dear Life (2013) first before proceeding for more. However, she would love it if you (are interested and) will kindly read some of her other short stories!
Thank you!
NOTABLE WORKS
(SHORT STORY RECOMMENDATIONS)
Alice Munro specializes in the art of writing short stories and has published numerous collections, contributing much to the literary world. The following are several popular and personal suggestions of what to read! I hope you enjoy.
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"Free Radicals" (2008) -- Too Much Happiness
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"The man’s head had fallen sideways, the woman’s backward. Their expressions were blown away. The sister had fallen forward, so there was no face to be seen, just her great flowery swathed knees and dark hair with its elaborate and outdated coiffure."
-- Free Radicals (2008)
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"Swimming was over. Over for the summer, for those who lived out of reach of the lake or municipal swimming pools. Private pools were only in the movie magazines. As I've said, my memory fails when it comes to parting from Charlene, getting into my parents' car. Because it didn't matter. At that age, things ended. You expected things to end."
-- "Child's Play" (2009)
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"She hurried away then, down the long varicoloured corridor, shaking. She had seen Patrick; Patrick had seen her; he had made that face. But she was not really able to understand how she could be an enemy. How could anybody hate Rose so much, at the very moment when she was ready to come forward with her good will, her smiling confession of exhaustion, her air of diffident faith in civilized overtures?
Oh, Patrick could. Patrick could."
-- "The Beggar Maid" (1978)
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"It was then that she decided to keep the Library open, though the flu was raging. Every day she was sure he would come, every day she was prepared for him... She understood now how people believed they had seen ghosts... No one spoke his name."
-- "Carried Away" (1991)
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The escaped child, the survivor, and old man trapped here by his leaky heart. I didn't pursue these thoughts. I didn't care to think of his younger selves. Even his bare torso, thick and white... the wrinkled neck... its thin gray hair and mustache, were more what I was used too.
-- The Moons of Jupiter (1978)
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"For some time Doree kept stuffing whatever she could grab into her mouth. After the dirt and grass it was sheets or towels or her own clothing. As if she were trying to stifle not just the howls that rose upbut the scene in her head.
-- Dimensions (2006)