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	Canadian Literary Archives - Alice Munro Biocritical
		Munro's labours in multiplying drafts can be seen as an effort to strike a viable balance between the sense of profit and of loss involved in Del's adoption of her new literary strategy.
		Munro's own testimony is that the story is autobiographical; the protagonist's dilemma in having to choose between "making a proper story" of her mother's illness and wanting "to bring back all I could" may reflect the author's own quandary.
		Munro also ventures into new territory in other ways: George, the sculptor of Hungarian descent is one of the few explicitly non-WASP characters in her fiction; the story is about the strategies of people playing at country living, rather than about the habits of country people.
	www.ucalgary.ca /lib-old/SpecColl/munrobioc.htm (6430 words)

	The making of Alice Munro - Books - www.theage.com.au
		Alice Munro's childhood, which she has drawn on heavily in her fiction, was a demanding, hard-scrabble one.
		It fell to Munro, as oldest, to keep the household running from the age of 12 or 13, an experience that both toughened her and damaged her relationship with her mother, bringing the sense of regret in its wake that appears and reappears in her stories.
		Munro escaped the confinements in the form of an internal rebellion - one that went against the inhibiting strictures of both her upbringing and her chosen vocation.
	www.theage.com.au /news/Books/The-making-of-Alice-Munro/2004/11/25/1101219665269.html?from=storyrhs&oneclick=true (1671 words)

	Alice Munro - MSN Encarta
		Alice Munro, born in 1931, Canadian writer, known for short stories focusing on the emotional lives of the inhabitants of rural Canada.
		Her tales, often set in southwestern Ontario, where she spent her childhood, are characteristically written from the point of view of a young or adolescent girl and address themes of particular interest to women.
		Born Alice Anne Laidlaw in Wingham, Ontario, Munro was educated at the University of Western Ontario.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761563765 (404 words)

	The Lamp in the Mausoleum - The New York Review of Books
		According to Alice Munro's biographer, Robert Thacker, the source of her literary power is grounded in a deep family connection to southwest Ontario, where she was born in 1931 to a farmer called Robert Laidlaw and his wife Anne.
		Munro's late flowering as an author, for Robert Thacker, is largely the result of her return to Ontario in 1973 after the breakup of her first marriage and over twenty years of "exile" in British Columbia.
		Alice Munro has said that she was glad to escape from exhausting physical labor and have time to write, but in her fiction working people often seem more real and more admirable than anyone else.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/19693 (5012 words)

	Amazon.de: Runaway: Stories: English Books: Alice Munro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Alice Munro has been accused of telling the same story over and over, and to a certain extent the characterization is true.
		Munro is remarkable for the ease and completeness with which she brings the world of a character into the frame, and her characteristic and greatly effective looping through time--not just connecting present and past but also indicating the future--is haunting.
		Munro's unique portrayal of everyday aspects of life is rare around and the richness of it will make you want to read all of her other books.
	www.amazon.de /Runaway-Stories-Alice-Munro/dp/140004281X (787 words)

	Review: Runaway by Alice Munro \| By genre \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		Alice Munro is now in her mid-70s, and her gaze, always marvellously quick and deep, searches back over longer distances.
		The long range of Munro's stories is only made possible by her apparently effortless possession of decade beyond decade of the past, her technique being the opposite of so much information-bolstered fiction of the present: she knows that life in the past was unhampered by any sense of its future quaintness, so she doesn't explain.
		Robin is a distinct Munro type, capable, with private, perhaps unrealisable ambitions, and a sense of not wholly belonging in the well-trodden plot of provincial life.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,1406134,00.html (1205 words)

	Courtney Jackson
		Munro even created a generic mother in the story who thinks that signing a non-drinking pledge card in the seventh grade was ìÖ just nonsense and fanaticism,î and ìÖignoranceÖis not always such a fine thing as people thinkÖî (Munro 451).
		This technique also enhances Munroís extraordinary style, as writer R.Z. Sheppard commented, ìReticence is the pervading style of Munroís rural Ontario, where drawbacks and adversity were not to be noticed, not to be distinguished from their opposites.
		Munro molds life into thoroughly enjoyable fiction; she does not try to change anyoneís life, or add new meaning to already definite situations, she simply writes on what is real.
	cjack11.myweb.uga.edu /alicemunro.html (1219 words)

	Alice Munro
		Alice Munro was born Alice Laidlaw in Wingham, Ontario, where she grew up on a farm with her sister and brother.
		Munro was expected to continue the farming business, but when she was 12, she decided to become a writer - "my oddity just shone out of me;" she once said.
		Munro's first story, 'The Dimensions of a Shadow', appeared in 1950, but it was no until 1968, that her first collection of short stories was published.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /munro.htm (937 words)

	Alice Munro
		Munro points out that there are many forces at work, shaping our lives and relationships, and we cannot see them all unless we place one event next to another - almost like a list - and see that they all influence one another.
		Munro was making me think very hard about something, what I'm not quite sure, but she wasn't letting me in on the secret, that was for me to figure out.
		Munro builds on these notions, adds to them, fleshes them out, but her style is so complex and complete that the reader, upon reading one or two of these short sentences, can instantly recognize vital clues to a character's makeup and inspiration, perhaps without having consciously perceiving the same up to that point.
	clem.mscd.edu /~english/3230/munro.htm (5350 words)

	Alice Munro's The View from Castle Rock. - By Judith Shulevitz - Slate Magazine
		The Anatomy of DestinyAlice Munro, spinner of fates.
		Underneath the calm ease of Alice Munro's prose, its accommodating glide along the contours of the world preserved in her stories—the towns and farms of rural Canada—there has always been a surprising steeliness.
		Munro, I should say, isn't trying to do anything as ponderous as emulate holy writ, though she does scatter allusions to the Bible throughout the book in a way that makes us aware of the residual power of the old faith.
	www.slate.com /id/2151887 (1967 words)

	Fiction Authors in Depth - Alice Munro - Meyer Literature
		Nearly all of Alice Munro’s fiction is set in southwestern Ontario, but her reputation as a brilliant short-story writer goes far beyond the borders of her native Canada.
		Munro was born into a family of farmers on July 10, 1931, in the small rural town of Wingham, Ontario.
		Munro’s stories are filled with glimpses of what she describes in "An Ounce of Cure" as the "shameless, marvelous, shattering absurdity" of life.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /literature/bedlit/authors_depth/munro.htm (696 words)

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		Munro's characters habitually leave their pasts behind for new territories, only to discover that they have come back full circle to origins they cannot escape.
		Alice Munro is that rare Canadian whose fame abroad matches the admiration she enjoys in Canada.
		Alice Munro was born in the small rural town of Wingham, Ontario into a family of fox and poultry farmers.
	www.lycos.com /info/alice-munro.html (556 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Alice Munro - Books: Meet the Writers
		Alice Munro got her start in writing as a teenager in Ontario, and published her first story while attending Western Ontario University in 1950.
		Munro takes a gradual, methodical approach to unraveling her stories, often developing a character's perspective through several paragraphs, only to demolish it with a single, biting sentence.
		As Munro grows older, her themes are turning more and more toward illness and death, yet she continues to display a startling vitality and youthfulness in her writing.
	www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writerdetails.asp?cid=996938 (623 words)

	identity theory \| books \| runaway by alice munro
		The title story has all the essential Munro elements: a young, working-class woman in rural Ontario with an independent streak who is unnecessarily dependent on love (or her version of love); an undercurrent of danger and despair; movement forward and backward through time; and enough twists to make it a great old-fashioned page-turner.
		There have been many times I have been reading Munro stories waiting for a question to be answered, a plot point to be revealed, only to realize that she wasn’t going to do it, and anyway that wasn’t the point of the story at all.
		Munro tries some new things, too, or at least reaches deeper into her range with the final story of the collection, “Powers.” She writes in first person for part of the story, which she rarely does.
	www.identitytheory.com /lit/angie_munro.php (1521 words)

	Amazon.ca: Friend of My Youth: Books: Alice Munro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Munro's (The Progress of Love) unfailing sense of the timeless propels the stories in her seventh book to the point of quiet revelation.
		It is difficult to do justice to Munro's magical way with characterization or to her unerring control of her own resources: she writes about the forging and dismantling of friendships, marriages, families and solitudes with a trenchant knowledge of life and fiction as conspiring forces of creation.
		Munro is an established author, one of the few who have mastered the art of short story writing.
	www.amazon.ca /Friend-My-Youth-Alice-Munro/dp/077106697X (916 words)

	Alice Munro - AOL Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Munro, in a foreword, tells how, a decade ago, she began looking into her family history, going all the way back to 18th-century Scotland.
		Munro has used personal material in her fiction before, but at 75, she has given us something much closer to autobiography.
		Alice Munro, author of 'The View from Castle Rock.' Go to AOL Books for the latest author interviews, book news, book reviews, book clubs, and book lists.
	books.aol.com /booklists/product/alice-munro (442 words)

	Alice Munro
		Munro is also fascinated with love and work, and the failings of both; she shares Chekov’s obsession with time and our much-lamented inability to delay or prevent its relentless movement forward.
		Munro’s stories, narrated in her signature style of unadorned realism, are usually set in small-town rural Ontario, the world in which she grew up and where she has lived for much of her life.
		In Munro’s fiction the creative impulse, the intricate subtlety of female sexuality, 'women’s tenderness is greedy, their sensuality is dishonest,' and the careful gradation of class and custom away from the bohemian anonymity available in the cities, are recurring themes.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=auth03D29L044112635689 (1588 words)

	Munro, Alice
		Alice Munro was born and spent her early years in western Ontario farming country.
		Munro won the GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD for her first collection of short stories, Dance of the Happy Shades (1968) and again in 1978 for Who Do You Think You Are?
		The strength of her fiction arises partially from its vivid sense of regional focus, most of her stories being set in Huron County, Ont, as well as from her sense of the narrator as the intelligence through which the world is articulated.
	thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0005522 (821 words)

	VQR » Appreciations of Alice Munro
		Munro has the great moral force and intelligence to refuse to judge or idealize her characters, which would be easy to do, and she won’t allow her readers to do so either.
		Alice Munro’s writing casts her as someone who dares to speak the truth about the world, to say the things that we are ashamed or afraid to tell.
		Munro is not a dramatically experimental writer, but in the last fifteen years she has been doing radically experimental things with form and with time and has been quietly demolishing our perceptions of what is and isn’t possible in the short story.
	www.vqronline.org /articles/2006/summer/awano-munro (7521 words)

	Home is where the muse lies - Books - Entertainment - smh.com.au
		Munro's father, Robert Laidlaw, was a fox farmer and her mother, Anne (nee Chamney), was a woman with an entrepreneurial flair who saved the family bacon at least once before developing Parkinson's disease.
		In 1951 she married James Munro and began a two-decade effort, against all odds, to be a good suburban wife.
		The museum has a Munro exhibit and her house is on a tour given in the summer but it makes her nervous to think of people she knows reading her books.
	www.smh.com.au /news/books/home-is-where-the-muse-lies/2006/11/30/1164777710225.html (1526 words)

	Random House \| Authors \| Alice Munro
		Alice Munro has long been heralded for her penetrating, lyrical prose, and in “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” – the basis for Sarah Polley’s film Away From Her — her prodigious talents are once again on display.
		Alice Munro, who received the National Book Critics Circle Award for her latest collection of stories, The Love of a Good Woman, is widely acknowledged as a modern master of the short story.
		The incomparable Alice Munro’s bestselling and rapturously acclaimed Runaway is a book of extraordinary stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises, from the title story about a young woman who, though she thinks she wants to, is incapable of leaving her husband, to three stories about a woman named...
	www.randomhouse.com /author/results.pperl?authorid=21567 (1150 words)

	Munro, Alice - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Much acclaimed as one of the finest contemporary short-story writers, Munro is known for quiet, insightfully realistic, and irony-tinged works dealing with daily life and written in an elegantly unobtrusive prose.
		Alice Munro: a life in writing; A conversation with Eleanor Wachtel.(Interview)
		Constructing a Scots-Canadian ground: family history and cultural translation in Alice Munro.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-munro-a1l.html (423 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Alice Munro
		Born Alice Ann Laidlaw in 1931, she grew up near the small town of Wingham in Huron County, Ontario in a red-brick farmhouse with her parents, a brother and a sister.
		As Munro describes it, the Laidlaws' farm was in a “kind of little ghetto where all the bootleggers and prostitutes and hangers-on lived [...] It was a community of outcasts”.
		They moved to Vancouver before Alice could complete her university degree, and Jim was employed by the Eaton's department store there for the next twelve years, while Alice worked at the Vancouver Public Library and raised their three daughters, leaving her little time to write.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5050 (754 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Selected Stories: Books: Alice Munro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Ms Munro is a great artist (in a way that, say, Doris Lessing, for all her brilliance, is not) and a very fine writer.
		Munro uses straight forward language in her stories and everyday situations, bringing the characters to life by their reaction to these everyday occurances.
		Munro has many strong women in these stories, and manages to give them a real degree of sensitivity and softness along side the forcefulness that enables the characters to be opened up so that we can see how they got to be the way they are.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Selected-Stories-Alice-Munro/dp/0099732416 (867 words)

	Alice Munro's Runaway. - By Meghan O'Rourke - Slate Magazine
		Alice Munro is one of the best-selling short-story writers in North America, a remarkable feat for a writer who is renowned above all for her astonishing subtlety.
		In fact, it's a testament to Munro's skill and her willingness to take risks that she would write a story as strategically concocted as this, and then, at the key moment of tragic realization, choose to describe Robin's recognition of what transpired with only the barest verbal representations—the most minimal cutouts, if you will.
		Munro's decision to construct "Tricks" out of the tinder of contrivance is in this way well-earned: At the end of a life, she suggests, the "realism" and the "naturalism" we believe accurately describe our experience of the world are undermined by the strange theatricality of facing death, which radically alters the outlines of the world.
	www.slate.com /id/2111297 (1637 words)

	Alice Munro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Alice Ann Laidlaw, well known as Alice Munro, Canada’s most widely admired contemporary writer was born July 10, 1931.
		In 1973 Alice and James separated, then in 1976 she married her second husband Gerald Fremlin, a geographer, and are still married today.
		Munro bases a lot of her stories and characters on the people of her hometown.
	www2.carthage.edu /~skaczmar/biography.html (293 words)

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