Lives of Girls and Women (1971), Alice Munro's second published book is, like "Boys and Girls," a female coming of age tale. It is also the story of its protagonist's development as a writer.
Twentieth-century writers interested in writing a book about artistic calling will find that James Joyce's brilliant Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1914) is worthwhile reading. This book, like Munro's Lives of Girls and Women, is part of a sub-category in fiction in which writers fictionalize their own artistic.....
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