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From the Canadian short-fiction virtuoso Alice Munro, here are eight stories about girls and women, most of them set in small towns in western Canada over the course of roughly a century. Many of her characters--nearly all lonely misfits--have become decidedly eccentric and desperate for human contact. "A Wilderness Station" is about a mail-order bride whose husband turns out to be abusive; in "Carried Away," a librarian lives for the letters from a soldier at the front in World War II, who abandons her for another woman when he finally returns; in "An Albanian Virgin," an elderly loner recalls being abducted by tribesmen in Albania; and "Vandals," the book's last story, is about a quintessentially "good girl" who performs an act of pointless vandalism. OPEN SECRETS, her eighth collection, further crystallizes Alice Munro's stature as a master of the short story.
| Size | | Height: | 8.5 in | | Width: | 6.0 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 18.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
"She is the most accomplished writer of short stories in all of North America and perhaps in the entire English-speaking world. Her stories consistently intrigue, entertain, and seduce the reader into the most exotic universes hidden in the mundane...A Munro story creates magic...Her telling continually startles and amazes, and we are grateful."
Newsday (Long Island, N.Y.) - Dan Cryer
"A book that dazzles with its faith in language and in life...In OPEN SECRETS Alice Munro has written stories of enormous strength...heedless of convention, hazarding everything, firmly convincing us of the unseen good despite acknowledging our fears and harrowing experiences."
Josephine Humphreys
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