Dance of the Happy Shades And Other Stories

" A remarkable writer whose character emerge in shining clarity... A major talent is at work here " Los Angeles Times. Alice Munro's territory is the farms and semi-rural towns of south-western Ontario. In these dazzling stories she deals with the self-discovery of adolescence, the joys and pains of love and the despair and guilt of those caught in a narrow existence. And in sensitively exploring the lives of ordinary men and women, she makes us aware of the universal nature of their fears, sorrows and aspirations. " Munro's power of analysis, of sensations and thoughts is almost Proustian in its sureness ".