Munro, Alice (, 1931-)

The moons of Jupiter : stories / by Alice Munro. - Toronto, Canada : Macmillan of Canada , c1982. - 233 p. ; 24 cm.

Themes of heartbreak and the sadness of women aging dominate this collection: in ``The Stone in the Field,'' maiden aunts inhabit a farmhouse, dreading human contact; in ``The Turkey Season,'' a girl paid to gut turkeys observes the sexual carryings-on of adults. According to Publishers Weekly , ``The writer's questioning memory gives us sharp flashes of reality that are so vividly recalled they permit us to live another life for a moment.''

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Short stories, Canadian


Canada----Social life and customs----Fiction

PR9199.3.M8 / M66 1982

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