Modern Classics Open Secrets - Softcover

Munro, Alice

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9780143054993: Modern Classics Open Secrets

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143054996 ISBN 13: 9780143054993

Publisher: Penguin Canada, 2007

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With an Introduction by Jane Urquhart

The is a remarkable magic in these eight matchless stories—stories set in Ontario, Australia, Europe; in dangerous mountains, forbidding wilderness, familiar towns. Things that cannot be explained happen here—and yet all seems inevitable, deeply credible and always profoundly true to the human heart.

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

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She is our Chekhov, and is going to outlast most of her contemporaries."

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