Dance Of The Happy Shades And Other Stories
A Canada, Short Stories, Literary Fiction book. The tiny share we have of time appalls me, though...
In the stories that make up Dance of the Happy Shades, the deceptive calm of small-town life is brought memorably to the page, revealing the countryside of Southwestern Ontario to be home to as many small sufferings and unanticipated emotions as any place. This is the book that earned Alice Munro a devoted readership and established her as one of Canada's most beloved writers.Winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction, Dance of the Happy Shades is Alice Munro's first short story collection.
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- Pages: 224 pages
- ISBN: 9780075497172 / 75497174
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At high school I was never comfortable for a minute. I did not know about Lonnie. Before an exam, she got icy hands and palpitations, but I was close to despair at all times. When I was asked a question in class, any simple little question at all, my voice was apt to come out squeaky, or else hoarse and trembling. When I had to go to the blackboard I was sureeven at a time of the month when this could not be truethat I had blood on my skirt. My hands became slippery with sweat when they were required to work the blackboard compass. I could not hit the... Here they found themselves year after year- a group of busy, youngish women who had eased their cars impatiently through the archaic streets of Rosedale, who had complained for a week previously about the time lost, the fuss over the children's dresses, and, above all, the boredom, but who were drawn together by a rather implausible allegiance- not so much to Miss Marsalles as to the ceremonies of their childhood, to a more exacting pattern of life which had been breaking apart even then but which survived, and unaccountably still survived, in Miss Marsalles's... The red velvet material was hard to work with, it pulled, and the style my mother had chosen was not easy either. She was not really a good sewer. She liked to make things; that is different. Whenever she could she tried to skip basting and pressing and she took no pride in the fine points of tailoring, the finishing of buttonholes and the overcasting of seams as, for instance, my aunt and my grandmother did. Alice Munro, Dance Of The Happy Shades //
I felt a certain shame as a Canadian reader having never read any of Alice Munro's stories. I don't know how I made it this far without it, but the Canadian Lit classes I took in university decided to try to kill off any affection I had for our native writers through sheer boredom (I'm looking at you Sinclair Ross). Fortunately there's... Alice Munro una scrittrice grandissima.Le storie delle protagoniste dei suoi racconti mi rimangono impresse nella memoria come fotografie. Si tratta di storie straordinariamente ordinarie che descrivono con estrema nitidezza ombre e luci dell'animo umano. Subtlety is one of short-story master Alice Munros many strengths, and has been for decades. The Nobel Prize-winners delicate, precise complexity was basically sublime already in the early work gathered in Dance of the Shades, butspoiler alerta stickler for trigger warnings might want this collection tagged for fatally scalded baby...
