![]() These early books established Munro as a significant voice in Canadian fiction. We were all entranced by this small woman with dark curly hair and a diffident manner who, when she began to read from her work, created a world both strange and instantly recognizable to us, where a young girl living in provincial Canada in the 1940s harbours dreams and desires that are flatly denied by her circumstances, but which she refuses to relinquish. The other was the Women’s Press reprint of Lives of Girls and Women (1971), which my students and I were reading as part of a class on women’s writing. One was my copy of her first book of stories, Dance of the Happy Shades (1968). ![]() ![]() Among my collection of Alice Munro’s books, the two most prized are the ones that she autographed for me on a visit to Adelaide in March 1979.
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