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Alice Munro's short-story cycle tells the story of Rose, a young woman growing up in rural Canada with her stepmother, Flo. Following the two over the course of several decades, THE BEGGAR MAID (titled WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? in Canada) presents Rose as a bright, observant, and engaging young woman who is desperate to make something of her life--and Flo as an eccentric, stubborn counterforce whose ignorance leads her to try to trip Rose up at every turn. As Rose grows up and enters the world outside Flo's stagnant little town, Munro probes her psyche to uncover some fascinating contradictions and many important truths. The 10 stories include "Royal Beatings," "Half a Grapefruit," "Spelling," "White Swan," and "Mischief," as well as the much-anthologized title story.
Industry Reviews
"The stories are convincingly imagined and interestingly told, with sudden shifts in time that would stop the narrative flow of a novel but which this less linear hybrid happily accommodates....Moving, hard, lucid, [these stories] throw 'a cloudy, interesting, problematic light on the world.'"
New Republic - Jack Beatty (10/13/1979)
"I hope [Rose] will be heard from again, for she is immensely likeable, and there is gallantry in her willingness to take risks, open herself to the chance of love, and measure herself against what she was...."
Saturday Review - Ted Morgan (10/13/1979)
"Wonderful! Whether 'The Beggar Maid' is a collection of stories or a new kind of novel I'm not quite sure, but whatever it is, it's wonderful!"
Book Jacket - John Gardner
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