Yearbook of English Studies, January 1st, 2001
Alice Munro. By Coral Ann Howells. (Contemporary World Writers) Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press. 1998. xv+184 pp. [pound]35 (paperbound [pound]9.99). Alice Munro is a writer who is widely admired, yet there has to date been relatively little critical discussion of her work. As James Wood puts it in a review quoted by Coral Ann Howells, 'Alice Munro is such a good writer that nobody bothers anymore to judge her goodness [. . .] her reputation is like a good address' (p. 137). Howells's book sets out to remedy this situation, offering a lucid and accessible guide which dr...
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