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Lives of Girls and Women: A Novel
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Rating:  - Five stars is not enough!
Alice Munro is a master. She will be remembered (and is already recognized) as one of the greatest writers of the century. This book is amazing. Every story stopped my heart. Every line spoke truth. Read it immediately.
Rating: - Lives of Girls and Women
One of the most insightful and remarkable short story writers living today, Alice Munro's stories are like events, rich, beautiful and knowing. "Lives of Girls" traces the life of one girl into womanhood, supplying a blueprint, in many ways, of how to write a short story. Munro is a master, and this work is one (of many moments) of her at her greatest.
Rating:  - Wryly observed and poignant
This is the first book I've read by Alice Munro, and I've found it to be really impressive, and I'm definitely going to seek out other writing. She's undoubtedly good.
Munro's coming-of-age story resonates with a real sense of truth and has important things to say about the experience of women during the 40s. The main character is torn between her own passions and intelligence, and the guide of her likeable oddbod intellectual mother, and the conventional house-wife role that her best friend Naomi so vigorously adopts. It's an age-old predicament of most heroines - her inner sensibilites vs. what is commonly acceptable - but its wry observations and emotive language sets the novel apart. Munro's frank approach to sex is also refreshing.
Rating: - This book was good for a young woman growing up today
i just finished reading this novel for me literature class. it was a good novel for young women growing up today. even though the story took place in the '40's, girls are going through the same things today that Del Jorden went through
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