"Fiction" by Alice Munro
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In "Fiction," by bestselling author Alice Munro, a narrator lovingly describes the life and home she's built with her husband—and then describes how that life crumbles before her eyes. The rest of the story has our narrator in a different place in her life, reconciling with her past in a way she might never have expected.
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Copyright 2009 by Alice Munro. All rights reserved.
Excerpted by permission of Knopf Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
Previously published by Random House.
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About the Author
Now 78, Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published fourteen previous books—Dance of the Happy Shades; Lives of Girls and Women, Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You; Who Do You Think You Are?; The Moons of Jupiter; The Progress of Love; Friend of My Youth; Open Secrets; Selected Stories; The Love of a Good Woman; Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage; Runaway; The View from Castle Rock; and Alice Munro’s Best. During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including the recent Man Booker International Prize given to her in Dublin for “a body of work that has contributed to an achievement in fiction on the world stage.”
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The best thing in winter was driving home, after her day teaching music in the Rough River schools. It would already be dark, and on the upper streets of the town snow might be falling, while rain lashed the car on the coastal highway. Joyce drove beyond the limits of the town into the forest, and ...
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| daliwarn |  | 2010-06-09 | |
| DSTK |  | 2010-08-20 | |
| godspillows |  | 2010-03-24 | |
| jjhanson | | 2010-11-23 | |
| justAnca | | 2010-06-04 | |
| Kmcox | | 2011-10-17 | |
| llama | | 2010-02-23 | |
| Lockjaw | | 2011-09-08 | |
| Lolabean | | 2010-03-30 | |
| MonicaR | | 2010-02-27 | |
| onelmichelekc | | 2010-04-13 | |
| reader_rabbit | | 2010-09-25 | |
| shinysocks | | 2010-02-26 | |
| sidmary | | 2011-01-08 | |
| sodonnell | | 2010-11-29 | |
| ynleung | | 2011-02-11 |
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