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Moments of change, chance encounters, twists of fate that create a new way of thinking or being: The stories in Dear Life, by Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro, build to form a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be. The collection includes four powerful pieces, "autobiographical in Feeling", set during the time of Munro's own childhood, in the area where she grew up.
- Sales Rank: #120927 in Audible
- Published on: 2013-02-07
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 557 minutes
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111 of 121 people found the following review helpful.
As fresh and illuminating as any of Munro's previous collections; everything you want it to be and more
By Bookreporter
What can be said about Alice Munro's luminous writing that hasn't already been said? What unused plump adjectives might be bandied about to describe her way with words? What turn of phrase or simile might once again skirt the edge of capturing her unparalleled ability to so aptly describe those quiet moments in life that can change everything in a flash? Crossroads, they are called. A lightning bug trapped inside a jar, now free. Her latest collection, DEAR LIFE, is all of those flashy adjectives and overextended metaphors. It's everything you want it to be, and more.
Munro has written 12 other short story collections as well as a few volumes of selected previously published stories and one novel. You'd think with this many published stories in her back pocket that maybe she'd retrace her steps, write the same story but with different characters, rely on a well-tread formula or two for some of the "filler" in the book. But such is not the case. While many reoccurring themes are explored, DEAR LIFE is as fresh and illuminating as any of her previous collections, if not more so. As another reviewer so fittingly put it, "there are no clunkers here."
"To Reach Japan," the first entry in the collection, finds Greta and her young daughter Katy on a train to Toronto to housesit a friend's home for a month while Greta's husband --- and Katy's father --- begins a new job elsewhere. While on the journey, the normally quiet and contained Greta gets too deep in the drink with a younger fellow they meet on the train and, in a moment of lusty abandon, loses track of Katy. Of course, mother and daughter are reunited, but not without Greta feeling the full weight of what might have happened. Still, it doesn't stop her from kissing back when a newspaper columnist she met at a party a few months earlier greets her on the platform in Toronto. As the pins line up, there's plenty to noodle over in this brief glimpse into the life of a subconsciously unhinged mother possibly unhappy in her marriage, definitely looking for a change.
In "Leaving Maverley," Morgan, a half-curmudgeonly small town movie theater projectionist, and his doting wife take a wayward girl named Leah under their wing who, not long after, runs off with the minister's son. As is often the case in Munro's stories, time isn't kind to any of the three, doling out tragedy in droves. Leah's marriage fails, causing her to lose her children. But it's Morgan's loss of his wife (to cancer) that stings the most. "But the emptiness in place of her was astounding.... What he carried with him, all he carried with him, was a lack, something like a lack of air, of proper behavior in his lungs, a difficulty that he supposed would go on forever."
Tackling loss --- and blame --- from a different angle, "Gravel" is the story of two sisters who live in a ramshackle trailer by a water-filled quarry after their mother left their sturdy, boring father for a younger, wilder man. When one sister drowns in the gravel pit on the other's watch, there's no question who is to blame. Their mother, a little too wild? The boyfriend, too stoned to jump in and save her? Or the narrator who stood by, watching her sister drown? As you might expect, it's the dead sister's voice that calls out the strongest here: "Caro keeps running at the water and throwing herself in, as if in triumph, and I'm still caught, waiting for her to explain to me, waiting for the splash."
Death. Love. Loss. Guilt. Shame. Lust. Loneliness. It's all poured over the coals in the stories throughout DEAR LIFE. But here's the kicker. There's an unprecedented finale tacked on at the book's end. Here, 81-year-old Munro writes, "The final four works in this book are not quite stories. They form a separate unit, one that is autobiographical in feeling, though not, sometimes, entirely so in fact. I believe they are the first and last --- and the closest --- things I have to say about my own life." [!!!] While these selections show none of the careful kneading and precise crafting so present in her fiction, it's perhaps just that raw, messy stream-of-consciousness that makes them so interesting to read.
** As a reviewer's side note, here's a tip: If you have access to the Winter 2012 issue of Granta, pick it up. Why? Aside from the fact that it's a well-curated journal that highlights the latest and greatest stories from Literary Greats such as Munro, this particular issue includes a story entitled "In Sight of the Lake" that is also included in DEAR LIFE. Here, an aging woman who seems to be losing her memory embarks on a drive in search of an "Elderly Specialist." As one might expect, she loses her way and has difficulty finding the doctor's office. I won't spoil the ending, but suffice it to say, the ending in DEAR LIFE and the ending in Granta *aren't the same!* I'm not sure I've ever had the pleasure of being treated to two slightly dissimilar endings that resonate very differently on the palate. It's an exercise that not only shows readers the myriad paths a story could follow, but also Munro's writing process as well.
Reviewed by Alexis Burling
45 of 51 people found the following review helpful.
Interesting Collection With Added Autobiographical Material
By Fairbanks Reader - Bonnie Brody
Fans of Alice Munro will be very happy with her new collection of short stories. Those that are new to her writing would be better served by starting out with one of her earlier books as these stories are not all that typical of her writing and there is an autobiographical section in the back of the book.
Ms. Munro has published twelve collections of short stories and one novel. She is a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Booker Award and the Lannan Literary Award. Her books have been translated into thirteen languages.
In the autobiographical section, there are tender remembrances of her past and her time with her familiy. 'Dear Life', the title story, is about her growing up. Her father started a business raising foxes and minks for their pelts. Eventually the business failed and her father went to work in a forgery. Her mother developed Parkinson's Disease when she was in her forties. The family did not realize that it was progressive and incurable. In 'The Eye', she writes about Sadie who helps out in their house. Alice and she develop a close bond. Sadie gets run over by a car on the way back from a dance when she is not yet twenty years old. This story explores the quality of their relationship.
One of the more powerful stories in the collection is 'Amundsen'. A teacher in a rural sanitarium for children with tuberculosis becomes engaged to a doctor who works there. Things don't progress as she hoped they would. 'Leaving Maverly' was my favorite story. Each night, a police officer drives a young woman of a very fundamentalist religious denomination home. One night she skips town. His own wife is very ill with serious heart disease and he ends up taking her to Toronto for care. The story is about hope turning to loss with no way of finding your way back. 'In Sight of The Lake' is about a woman looking for a doctor because of her memory loss. She finds that the world is a different place than she thought it was.
Late in the book, Ms. Munro states that "We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do - we do it all the time". This is a recurrent theme in her stories. We do things we hate, we end up hating ourselves but there is forgiveness eventually.
Most of the stories take place in rural areas of Canada and many of the them occur in earlier times. Few are contemporary. This is likely because Ms. Munro herself grew up in an earlier age than now.
She is the grande dame of short story writing and there is no one who can write a story as she can. We read, we get pulled in, and then we end up wondering, even at the end, what will happen next.
54 of 62 people found the following review helpful.
Simple Tales of Everyday Life
By D_shrink
A series of simple tales of everyday life with no great drama foretold, but which still draw you into their captivating storyline.
Although each story seems to be plausible, the endings are left open for each person to ascribe as they see fit. In other words there is a great deal of ambiguity to how each of the characters' lives eventually end up.
The author uses the train as a mode of transportation to set the background scene for most of the stories as a unifying theme plus a certain amount of despair and hopelessness in almost every case. Each story has some amount of psychological, spiritual, and sexual nature to it without the use of a lot of 4-lettered words to describe the action.
Each short story is poignantly told with a certain amount of hopelessness in the manner of predestination reminiscent of some European writers as Jean Paul Sartre. Yet in Ms Munro's stories the reader can supply the ending they choose, as nothing is written in stone except for the helplessness of the main characters to change a predestined plan of some existential force.
With the aforementioned precautions noted, I would recommend this fine work of short stories with easily understandable language. Just remember this is not a feel good series of stories although entertaining and evocative of many aspects of human nature.
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