FRIEND OF MY YOUTH. By Alice Munro. Knopf. 273 pp. 18.95. Those of us who were barely teenagers at the height of the women's movement have little direct understanding of the pre-Feminine Mystique era. For many, our mothers' liberation coincided with our parents'...
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Fanfare
To My Friends 07/01/2007: 370 words, approx. 1 pages
TO MY FRIENDS * Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (sop); Geoffrey Parsons (pn) * DECCA 000787802 (40:51 *) WOLF Mörike Lieder: Storchenbotschaft; Fussreise; Elfenlied; Bei einer Trauung; Jägerlied; Selbstgeständnis; Nimmersatte Liebe; Lebe wohl; Das verlassene Mägdlein; Auf ein altes Bild; Nixe Binsefuss, Eichendorn Lieder Helmweh. Lieder...
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's range.
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 every page contains "particular satisfactions of prose that is supple, tart and spare."
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.
Explores narrative uncertainty in Alice Munro's "Friend of my Youth." Describes how the author creates stories out of plots that seem so realistic that they could, or did, actually happen, and as part of the "real life" experience, adds uncertainty into her stories.
