This study of the work of Alice Munro explores the appeal of her fictions of small-town Canada with their precise attention to social surfaces and their fascination with local gossip and scandal. It highlights Munro's distinctive storytelling methods which combine the familiar and unfamiliar, slipping between realism and fantasy to make visible what is usually hidden in everyday life. These are women's narratives, full of silent female knowledge - of female bodies, love stories and romantic fantasies as well as female casualties.
- ISBN10 0719045584
- ISBN13 9780719045585
- Publish Date 6 August 1998
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 March 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Manchester University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English