Just for having these pleasing surfaces once, and letting them speak for you just for allowing an arrangement of hair and shoulders and breasts to have its effect.'') In yet another tale Prudence in her In another story Roberta, divorced and living with George, who's much younger than she, has inklings that her man ''is disgusted by her aging body.'' (''What is be done? Now the payment is due, and what for? For vanity. In ''Accident'' Frances, a mother of two who's obligedīy a family crisis to relive the events culminating in the breakup of her present husband's first marriage, is shaken to discover that for half a lifetime she's been exaggerating -with harmful effect - the momentousness of theseĮvents and the uniqueness of her own person. In ''Dulse'' anĮditor and poet named Lydia seeks ground on which to rebuild a conviction of self-worth, following the end of an affair with a man adept at humiliating her. It's true that the heroines Alice Munro usually chooses - women nearing or in their 40's who are negotiating difficult passages in domestic or sexual life - occupy situations frequently treated in fiction.
And the knowledge it offers can't be looked up elsewhere. It's exceptionally knowledgeable about the content and movement - the entanglements and entailments - of individual human feeling. Was admired by Maxine Hong Kingston and John Gardner, among others ''The Moons of Jupiter,'' her fourth collection of stories, is a stronger book than ''The Beggar Maid.'' Witty, subtle, passionate, Sometimes you can clearly say, "this story seems to be about X." Other times, like any great piece of art (Munro won the Noble Prize in literature in 2013), you may scratch your head unsure exactly what the piece is about but glad you went along for the ride.Lice Munro has held high rank among contemporary short story writers since publication of ''The Beggar Maid'' (1979), which In each of the stories you do feel like you get a good feel for the types of people in them, whether the central character (always a woman, sometimes young, sometimes middle-aged, often a parent, frequently divorced, in and out of relationships) or a love interest. And some stories had sexual explicitness that I had heretofore not been aware of. Here, she also excels at the more subtle and intricate interior psychological landscape of the heart, mind, and soul. Munro paints the usual vivid exterior landscapes of rural and urban Canada from coast to coast in times that vary from that of her childhood before and after World War Two straight up through the present (for this collection late 70s to early 80s). Many of the men appear to be jerks but love is blind and irrational so that hardly matters. This particular set of short stories by Alice Munro coheres to some extent thematically in their focus on women of all ages and their romantic entanglements with men.
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