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Alice Munro · 1971
A semi-autobiographical novel set in rural Ontario that follows the coming-of-age experiences of girls and women in a small community, told through interconnected stories with Munro's characteristic psychological depth and observational prose.
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A girl in small-town Ontario discovers that becoming a writer means raiding life for material, surviving desire, and outgrowing every authority that shaped her.
self-and-identity
I didn't want Uncle Craig's manuscript put back with the things I had written. It seemed so dead to me… I thought it might deaden my things too and bring me bad luck.
LGW-RC-053Damage had been done; Caroline and the other Halloways and their town had lost authority; I had lost faith.
LGW-RC-204I fixed my eyes on the sweater of the girl ahead of me… as if hanging on to such indifferent straws of fact would keep me from drowning in humiliation.
LGW-RC-068desire
All weekend the thought of him stayed in my mind like a circus net spread underneath whatever I had to think about… I was constantly letting go and tumbling into it.
LGW-RC-174Even Uncle Benny, so skinny and narrow-chested, had some look or way of moving that predicted chance or intended violence, something that would make disorder.
LGW-RC-122faith-and-doubt
Could there be God not contained in the churches' net at all… God real, and really in the world, and alien and unacceptable as death? Could there be God amazing, indifferent, beyond faith?
LGW-RC-096Illuminates
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