Modern Classics Open Secrets
Open Secrets may be Alice Munro's strangest book. These original, eccentric stories skirt their own secrets, resolving their plots but leaving everything else open. The stories are all connected (often very tenuously) to Carstairs, Ontario, a tiny, fictitious town hidden somewhere north of Georgian Bay, but they also ramble as far afield as rural Albania, wartime France, and Australia. The title story concerns the disappearance of a young girl from a Canadian Girls in Training camping trip. While the characters speculate whether the incident was a simple drowning, an assignation with a secret lover, or a murder, Munro sits, enigmatically, on the outside of resolution: Heather Bell will not be found. No body, no trace. She has blown away like ashes. Her displayed photograph will fade in public places. Its tight-lipped smile, bitten in at one corner as if suppressing a disrespectful laugh, will seem to be connected with her disappearance rather than her mockery of the school photographer. There will always be a tiny suggestion, in that, of her free will. Elsewhere, Munro takes conventional beginnings and turns them into extraordinary, expansive tales. The opening story, "Carried Away, " features the Carstairs librarian, who falls in love with a soldier who begins writing to her from the trenches of the First World War, even though they have never formally met. When he comes home, however, he does not introduce himself to her, but marries his old fiancé. Most writers would be content to leave the story there, but for Munro this is merely an introduction. As she does in so many of her stories of mundane but utterly extraordinary women, she takes this piece in surprising and refreshing directions. --Jack Illingworth Author(s): Alice Munro. Binding Paperback. Publisher(s): Penguin Canada. Label: Penguin Canada.
| Fabricant: | Penguin Canada |
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| Prix le plus bas (CAD): | 14,44 $ |
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| Auteur : | Alice Munro |
| Catégories de fiction : | Classics |
| Format : | Paperback |
| Marque : | Penguin Canada (APB) |
| Title : | Title J-M |
