Friend of My Youth | Friend of My Youth

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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

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...

Friend of My Youth | Friend of My Youth

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