She writes: “I believe they are the first and last-and the closest-things I have to say about my own life. The final four works (“not quite stories”) bring the author home, literally. Wednesdays and Sundays for Alice Munro, for March and April 2013. Theyve been married about ten years and Peter has to go far north to Lund for work and. Greta and Peter have a young daughter, Katy. Munro admirers will see that these stories are shorter than many in her recent collections, but they have all the sharpness, accessibility, and power of her earlier work, and they are-as always-full of “real” people. Trains make arrivals and departures routine (consider To Reach Japan and Amundsen). 'To Reach Japan' was first published in Narrative Magazine and then it was included in Munros collection Dear Life published in 2012. Margaret Atwood once shrewdly noted that “pushing the sexual boundaries is distinctly thrilling for many a Munro woman,” and very few of these stories deal with men and women in sedate, conventional domestic settings. The range of storytellers is astonishing, as we hear the young voices of women recalling their teenage years and the equally convincing voice of an old woman fighting Alzheimer’s. On that journey, different kinds of passion produce surprises, both on the journey and at its end.
Even “To Reach Japan,” where a Vancouver mother takes her young daughter across the country by train, ends in Toronto.
The fourteen stories in this brilliant collection show Alice Munro coming home to southwestern Ontario, with Toronto looming on the horizon.
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