Friend of My Youth (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Alice Munro
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction, Domestic realism, Character study
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Memory, Mothers, Parents and children, Marriage, Friendship, Dreams, Women’s issues, Storytelling, Adultery, Sisters, Women, Divorce, Death or dying, Canada or Canadians, Imagination, Widows or widowers, Sacrifice, Happiness, Miscarriage, Wigs
- Locales: Oceans, Ontario, Canada, Scotland, British Columbia, Canada
Form and Content
Friend of My Youth is a collection of ten short stories in which the protagonists examine their own lives and the lives of others in the hope of finding some certainty or, failing that, some new perception. All the stories either are set in Canada, often in Alice Munro’s native Ontario, or involve Canadian characters. In all but one of them, the point of view is that of a woman, and even in “Oranges and Apples,” which is told through the eyes of Murray Ziegler, the central focus of the narrative is Murray’s relationships with his wife and with...
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