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Lives of Girls and Women

Alice Munro

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Sep 22, 2010 Cynthia Paschen rated it it was amazing

Shelves: myfavorites, the-list

Where to start. Munro had me hooked in the first paragraph: "We spent days along the Wawanash River, helping Uncle Benny fish....
He was not our uncle, or anybody's."

"He was not our uncle, or anybody's." That line is so short and so brilliant--can't you just picture Uncle Benny in your head right now? Munro does not mock the characters in this small-town story the way Flannery O'Connor might.

Indeed Del Jordan, our young narrator, has never really left the town of Jubilee and a part of her never ...more

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Nov 23, 2013 Francisco rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: novela, estadounidenses

Correcta en cuanto a estilo y forma, la anécdota no da para tanto, y en ocasiones parece estar estirada como una masa muy escasa...

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Sep 09, 2009 Monica rated it really liked it

Shelves: 1001, 2009

This book is lovely, lovely, lovely. Everything feels immediate and true and the coming of age stuff is totally on point. There are little bits of growing up in here I swear I've never seen tackled in any novel. Seriously, big kudos to Munro for pulling off something that feels so fresh out of such well traveled material.

I think this is Munro's only novel, and even this feels like a series of short stories about one girl, her mother, and the women that surround her in her rural Ontario town. Des ...more

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Aug 30, 2018 Inder rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 21st-century, 1001-books, fiction, women, writing, short-stories, canada, read-2018

Daaaaaaaaang, this is a great little novel/collection of stories! Alice Munro just has an incredible grasp of human motives, foibles, and interactions - her writing just amazes me. This is a coming of age story and a larger story about girls and women (as the title suggests). Somehow, the story describes one small Canadian town and its occupants with jewel-like clarity while addressing larger issues of feminism and femininity as well, but so seamlessly you barely notice it's happening and you ne ...more

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