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Friend of My Youth Information
62 words, approx. 1 pages
 Friend of My Youth is a book of short stories by Alice Munro, published by McClelland and Stewart in 1990. It won the 1990 Trillium Book...




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Critical Review by Mary Jo Salter
3,061 words, approx. 10 pages
 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.
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Critical Review by Carol Shields
2,579 words, approx. 9 pages
 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."
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Critical Essay by Judith Timson
1,831 words, approx. 6 pages
 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.
Featured Essays
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Use of Narrative Uncertainty in Alice Munro's "Friend of My Youth"
1,962 words, approx. 7 pages
 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.


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