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Title: Open Secrets
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Publication Date: 1994
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0701161450
ISBN 13: 9780701161453
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Ranging from the 1850s to the present, and from Ontario to Brisbane and Albania, these eight long stories are concerned with the daily threads of life in two small Ontario towns. Each story centres on unconventional women who refuse to let themselves be constrained by society or everyday life.

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She is our Chekhov, and is going to outlast most of her contemporaries.
Cynthia Ozick
Brilliant at evoking life s diversity and unpredictability, [Alice Munro is] an unrivalled chronicler of human nature.
"The Sunday Times"
An Alice Munro story zooms effortlessly through time zones, spans generations and offers up more detail and description than do many full-length contemporary novels.
"Maclean" "s"
She is the best fiction writer in North America.
"The Vancouver Sun
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Praise from fellow writers:
Her work felt revolutionary when I came to it, and it still does. Jhumpa Lahiri
She is one of the handful of writers, some living, most dead, whom I have in mind when I say that fiction is my religion. Jonthan Franzen
The authority she brings to the page is just lovely. Elizabeth Strout
She s the most savage writer I ve ever read, also the most tender, the most honest, the most perceptive. Jeffery Eugenides
Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can. Julian Barnes
She is a short-story writer who reimagined what a story can do. Loorie Moore
There s probably no one alive who s better at the craft of the short story. Jim Shepard
A true master of the form. Salman Rushdie
A wonderful writer. Joyce Carol Oates"

"She is our Chekhov, and is going to outlast most of her contemporaries."
-Cynthia Ozick

"Brilliant at evoking life's diversity and unpredictability, [Alice Munro is] an unrivalled chronicler of human nature."
-The Sunday Times

"An Alice Munro story zooms effortlessly through time zones, spans generations and offers up more detail and description than do many full-length contemporary novels."
-Maclean's

"She is the best fiction writer in North America."
-The Vancouver Sun

Praise from fellow writers:

"Her work felt revolutionary when I came to it, and it still does." --Jhumpa Lahiri

"She is one of the handful of writers, some living, most dead, whom I have in mind when I say that fiction is my religion." --Jonthan Franzen

"The authority she brings to the page is just lovely." --Elizabeth Strout

"She's the most savage writer I've ever read, also the most tender, the most honest, the most perceptive." --Jeffery Eugenides

"Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can."--Julian Barnes

"She is a short-story writer who...reimagined what a story can do." --Loorie Moore

"There's probably no one alive who's better at the craft of the short story." --Jim Shepard

"A true master of the form." --Salman Rushdie

"A wonderful writer." --Joyce Carol Oates

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