Five books published in fourteen years have firmly established Alice Munro among Canada's best writers of prose fiction. Her form is the short story, and her material is largely the experience of a gi...
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In the following essay, based on an interview with Munro following the publication of Friend of My Youth, Timson relates the importance and discipline of writing in Munro's life.
After a wri...
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Salter is an American poet and critic. In the following review, she praises Munro's portrayal of imperfect women in several of the stories from Friend of My Youth, but questions the author�...
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Shields is a Pulitzer-prize winning novelist, poet, and critic who has lived in and written about Canada. In the following review, she favorably reviews Friend of My Youth, calling it a book on which ...
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Narration is a key element of any story - wherever there is a story there must be someone to tell its tale, but what happens when the narrator is uncertain of events they are describing? Alice Munro'...
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Teaching Friend of My Youth
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Friend of My Youth Lesson Plans contain 148 pages of teaching material, including:
Alice Munro
Critical Essay by Judith Timson
Use of Narrative Uncertainty in Alice Munro's "Friend of My Youth"
