The Virginia Quarterly Review, July 1st, 2006
Michael Cunningham, novelist
Alice Munro tells the large stories of people whose lives are outwardly small. Rarely does she write about the exceptional outsider. She is a great champion of ordinary outsiders, of people who in small and crucial ways don't fit, who need a better life than the one being offered to them. She, like Virginia Woolf, has always insisted on the particular importance of women's lives, insisted that the story of an unhappy housewife in middle age is every bit as important as the story of a sea captain about to undertake the search for a white whale. In so doing, Munro, ...
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