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...only for nymphets. Actresses over 40 are invisible to the movie camera. But the literary world is different. A woman can have a few gray hairs and still count on being published. It's a good thing too, because two of the best writers alive, Annie Proulx and Alice Munro, are well along into their golden years. And they both have new collections of stories that prove golden is the word for what they...
...Alice Munro likes to play with time in the same startling way, making it rush forward or double back on itself. A Canadian whose first book was published in 1968, Munro is routinely called one of the finest living writers. You can turn to any of the eight stories in Runaway (Knopf; 335 pages...
What especially interests Munro, 73, is the ways that people come to terms with their fates. Her central character is frequently a young woman from rural Ontario who moves to another life, only to find it unlike what she expected. Yet to make the move is essential, as Munro shows us in the title story, about an unhappy young wife who turns out to be unable to leave her feckless, disappointing husband...
...final pages of Powers, the unforgettable story that concludes this book, an old woman realizes that what she wants to do "is not so much to live in the past as to open it up and get one good look at it." That's what Munro offers her readers, the hope of that one good look. Her gift for nuance is such that you find yourself trying to imitate her. But what works for a fiction writer might not be the best idea for a reviewer. You risk having the reader fail to grasp your full meaning...
SHORT STORIES: Alice Munro and Annie Proulx are golden...