Alice Munro
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| Title | : | Lives of Girls and Women |
| Author | : | Alice Munro |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 277 pages |
| Published | : | February 13th 2001 by Vintage (first published 1971) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Short Stories. Cultural. Canada |
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The only novel from Alice Munro -- award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman -- is an insightful, honest book, "autobiographical in form but not in fact," that chronicles a young girl's growing up in rural Ontario in the 1940s. Del Jordan lives out at the end of the Flats Road on her father's fox farm, where her most frequent companions are an eccentric bachelor family friend and her rough younger brother. When she begins spending more time in town, she is surrounded by women -- her mother, an agnostic, opinionated woman who sells encyclopedias to local farmers; her mother's boarder, the lusty Fern Dogherty; and her best friend, Naomi, with whom she shares the frustrations and unbridled glee of adolescence. Through these unwitting mentors and in her own encounters with sex, birth, and death, Del explores the dark and bright sides of womanhood. All along she remains a wise, witty observer and recorder of truths in small-town life. The result is a powerful, moving, and humorous demonstration of Alice Munro's unparalleled awareness of the lives of girls and women.Be Specific About Books To Lives of Girls and Women
| Original Title: | Lives of Girls and Women |
| ISBN: | 0375707492 (ISBN13: 9780375707490) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.98 From 10473 Users | 780 ReviewsComment On Containing Books Lives of Girls and Women
This is my favourite sort of novel: writing that is acute, astute, and beautiful, sugaring deeper questions and messages that take time to ferment and mature. All weekend thought of him stayed in my mind like a circus net spread underneath whatever I had to think about... I was constantly letting go and tumbling into it.I felt similarly about Del Jordan, though for completely different reasons.This is my first encounter with Munro, and its her only novel. It is not far removed from shortTitle: Lives of Girls and WomenAuthor: Alice MunroISBN: 978-0375707490Pages: 288Release Date: February 13, 2001Publisher: VintageGenre: Contemporary FictionRating: 4.5 out of 5Book Summary: Lives of Girls and Women is an insightful, honest book, "autobiographical in form but not in fact," that chronicles a young girl's growing up in rural Ontario in the 1940's.Del Jordan lives out at the end of the Flats Road on her father's fox farm, where her most frequent companions are an eccentric bachelor
"What was a normal life? It was the life of the girls in the creamery office, it was showers, linen and pots and pans and silverware, that complicated feminine order; then, turning it over, it was the life of the Gay-la Dance Hall, driving drunk at night along the black roads, listening to men's jokes, putting up with and warily fighting with men and getting hold of them, getting hold one side of that life could not exist without the other, and by undertaking and getting used to them both a
Quiet, introspective, observant, and beautiful. Alice Munro's stories are surprising, which is something I love in writing. Her characters, observations, and settings are all full of oblique angles that are not obvious and not predictable. Munro points out that people (and the world) are both more mundane and infinitely more complex than their fictional counterparts. Real tragedy is never as exciting as its fictional counterpart. Real people both stay the same, remain boring, and often do things
There is a change coming I think in the lives of girls and women. Yes. But it is up to us to make it come. All women have had up till now has been their connection with men. All we have had. No more lives of our own, really, than domestic animals. He shall hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, a little closer than his dog, a little dearer than his horse. Tennyson wrote that. Its true. Was true. You will want to have children, though.Thats how much she knew me.
I gave myself two days to settle with this book before even attempting a review. Two days of thinking and reflecting and confirming the marvel that is this book. As one can tell from the title of the book, Munro focuses on the relationships between girls and women in this book and each chapter marked a new development for Del, the protagonist of this story.Del is a precocious girl living first at the outskirts and then in the poor small town of Jubilee, Canada. Her mother writes in the paper and
I've enjoyed every Munro book I have read...... until now.I don't know if it's because it was a 'novel', but which still felt like a group of short stories - snapshots at random points in time. Or maybe it was because I couldn't relate to 'Del' at all. The writing is superb of course, with some poignant insights - which is probably why I finished it; I just didn't like any of the characters, although I enjoyed the first part more than the second. I shall still read more of her short story
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