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 girl growing up poor in a small southwestern Ontario tow...

YOUNG, ANTONIA. Women who become men: Albanian sworn virgins (Dress, Body, Culture). xxvi 168 PP., maps, illus,, bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berg, 2000. [pound]42.99 (cloth), [pound]14.99 (paper) Antonia Young describes the institution of 'Sworn Virgins' in Northern Albania, following her interest in...

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