Open Secrets (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

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In her eighth book, Canadian author Alice Munro revisits the physical and emotional landscapes that have become closely identified with her work. Nearly all these stories take place in southeastern Ontario, in or near the small town of Carstairs or its larger neighbor Walley, a port on Lake Huron. Her characters are ordinary people with uncertain lives, their stories connected by a common setting and spanning a period from the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth century.

Munro’s early work consists primarily of first-person, coming-of-age stories, well crafted and powerful. In...

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