Dance of the Happy Shades

from OccassionalRead

This is a collection of Alice Munro's early stories, written in the 1950s and 1960s. By no means unpolished, these stories evoke a time and place, mid 19th century rural Canada, that is distant yet familiar. Told from the perspective of children, teenagers, and adults, mostly but not exclusively ...

from crashmyparty

The best thing about Alice Munro's stories are how easy they are to read and read, over and over again. I keep going back to them and finding some hidden pearls of wisom or a tale underneath a story that I never noticed before. The stories keep me thinking for days and more in depth each time I g...

from gypsysmom

This was Munro's first published work and it won the Governor-General's Award for fiction in 1968. I think it is fair to say that many of the stories are autobiographical, remembering her early years in Wingham Ontario. She speaks for all of the misfit girls, those girls who don't quite fit in wi...

from streamsong

Growing up and living in western US towns isn't much different than living in small town Ontario that Ms Munro writes about so well. Some of these stories and characters I instantly relate to; some bring about a sort of recognition – oh is that what it's about? And some leave me feeling stifled o...

from lamour

Her first book and winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction in 1968. The story, "Walkers Brothers Cowboy" brings back many memories for me as a kid growing up on a farm in Southwestern Ontario and experiencing the visit by the Fuller Brush man or the Watkins salesman. We also had our br...