And Munro's versatility is on display in other variations on the caring/not-caring tension-between two aging brothers, between two octogenarians in a nursing-home. Still, if these studies of to-care-or-not-to-care uneasiness lack the vigor of earlier Munro (at their weakest they're reminiscent of Alice Adams), a few other pieces are reassuringly full-blooded: "The Turkey Season," about a teenage girl who takes a part-time job as a turkey-gutter and learns some thorny first lessons about unrequited love the title story, in which a woman's trip to the planetarium illuminates her turmoil (a dying father, a rejecting daughter) with metaphor wonderful, resonant reminiscences about the contrasting spinsters on both sides of a family. And in "Labor Day Dinner," the divorced woman is trying again, but with a sometimes-cruel man ("Your armpits are flabby," he says) whose love must be periodically revived by her displays of (unfeigned) indifference. Two other stories feature the hurt and compromise involved in "casual" affairs-casual for the man, perhaps, less so for the woman. In "Dulse," an editor/poet vacations alone, away from a troubled affair-and is confronted by sensuality on the one hand and the "lovely, durable shelter" of celibate retreat on the other.
Here, though a few of these eleven new stories reach back to that core material effectively, the focus is looser, the specifics are less arresting, and Munro's alter-egos have moved on to a real yet not-always-compelling dilemma: over 40, long-divorced, children grown, these women waver "on the edge of caring and not caring"-about men, love, sex. OL931687W Page_number_confidence 94.31 Pages 248 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210110092145 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 240 Scandate 20210108072234 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 0713915498 Tts_version 4.In Lives of Girls and Women and The Beggar Maid (the Flo and Rose stories), Canadian short-story writer Munro drew unusual strength and sharpness from the vivid particulars of growing-up with-and growing out from-a stifling yet intense Canadian background.
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