![]() AUTHOR BIOGRAPHYĪlice Munro was born July 10, 1931, to Ann Clarke and Robert Eric Laidlaw, a farming couple from Wingham, Ontario, Canada. Many of the endings are delightfully or unsettlingly ambiguous, depending on what readers are seeking. Each of her stories spans several generations, and she has a remarkable talent for jumping across several decades without losing the narrative thread. ![]() Rather than pursuing her topic relentlessly, though, Munro represents it indirectly, while at the same time exploring the nuances of complex relationships, the way in which a moment can change peoples' lives forever, and the paradoxical sense of looking back on one's life with both regret and contentment. In each of the stories, however, there are either characters who are running from something or someone, or characters who miss one who has left. ![]() While three of the stories are connected by the same protagonist, the rest of the stories seem at first disconnected, united only in their common location of Western Canada. No lessons ever!” In Runaway, Munro explores the circumstances and consequences of running away, but does so without judgment, and without resolution. When asked in an interview in 1982 whether she has tried to teach anything in her stories, Alice Munro replied, “Ahhh! No lessons. ![]()
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