β Scribed by Thacker, Robert
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This is the book about one of the worldβs great authors, Alice Munro, which shows how her life and her stories intertwine.
For almost thirty years Robert Thacker has been researching this book, steeping himself in Alice Munroβs life and work, working with her co-operation to make it complete. The result is a feast of information for Alice Munroβs admirers everywhere.
By following "the parallel tracks" of Alice Munroβs life and Alice Munroβs texts, he gives a thorough and revealing account of both her life and work. "There is always a starting point in reality," she once said of her stories, and this book reveals just how often her stories spring from her life.
The book is chronological, starting with her pioneer ancestors, but with special attention paid to her parents and to her early days growing up poor in Wingham. Then all of her life stages -- the marriage to Jim Munro, the move to Vancouver, then to Victoria to start the bookstore, the three...
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This is _the_ book about one of the world's great authors, Alice Munro, which shows how her life and her stories intertwine. For almost thirty years Robert Thacker has been researching this book, steeping himself in Alice Munro's life and work, working with her co-operation to make it complete.
This is *the* book about one of the world's great authors, Alice Munro, which shows how her life and her stories intertwine. For almost thirty years Robert Thacker has been researching this book, steeping himself in Alice Munro's life and work, working with her co-operation to make it complete.
The only novel from Alice Munro-award-winning author of **The Love of a Good Woman**--is an insightful, honest book, "autobiographical in form but not in fact," that chronicles a young girl's growing up in rural Ontario in the 1940's. Del Jordan lives out at the end of the Flats Road on her father'
The only novel from Alice Munro-award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman--is an insightful, honest book, ''autobiographical in form but not in fact,'' that chronicles a young girl's growing up in rural Ontario in the 1940's.