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Open Secrets: Stories

by Alice Munro

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In these eight tales, Munro evokes the devastating power of old love suddenly recollected. She tells of vanished schoolgirls and indentured frontier brides and an eccentric recluse who, in the course of one surpassingly odd dinner party, inadvertently lands herself a wealthy suitor from exotic Australia. And Munro shows us how one woman's romantic tale of capture and escape in the high Balkans may end up inspiring another woman who is fleeing a husband and lover in present-day Canada.

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"An Alice Munro story zooms effortlessly through time zones, spans generations and offers up more detail and description than do many full-length contemporary novels." Maclean's

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"She is the best fiction writer in North America." The Vancouver Sun

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"Open Secrets is a book that dazzles with its faith in language and in life." New York Times Book Review
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About the Author

Alice Munro is the author of seven previous books: a novel, Lives of Girls and Women, and six collections of stories — Dance of the Happy Shades, Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You, The Beggar Maid, The Moons of Jupiter, The Progress of Love, and Friend of My Youth. The stories in Open Secrets have appeared in The New Yorker and The Paris Review.She and her husband live in Clinton, Ontario, near Late Huron, and in Comox, British Columbia.

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Table of Contents

Carried away — A real life — The Albanian virgin — Open secrets — The Jack Randa Hotel — A wilderness station — Spaceships have landed — Vandals.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780679755623
Subtitle:
Stories
Author:
Munro, Alice
Publisher:
Vintage Books USA
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Social life and customs
Subject:
Women
Subject:
Novels and novellas
Subject:
Short Stories (single author)
Subject:
Literature
Subject:
Femmes
Subject:
Women -- Canada -- Social life and customs. .
Copyright:
c199
Edition Description:
1st Vintage Contemporaries ed.
Series Volume:
51
Publication Date:
November 1995
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
304
Dimensions:
8.37x4.87x.64 in. .49 lbs.
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