Open secrets
stories
by Alice Munro
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These are stories in which women are central. They are about lovers found and lovers lost but lodged still in the subconscious, about secrets that change lives, about people whose histories are opening out or coming to an end. Their power accumulates layer by layer as time and reality shift, identities become uncertain, truths surface.
A heart patient on a trip to her doctor on a hot summer's day has a revelation about the lasting power of an old love. A long-hidden secret sticks in the consciousness of a young woman, who, in an outrageous but entirely satisfying act, finally rids herself of its thrall. A romantic tale of capture and escape in the wilds of central Europe may or may not be true, but it comforts the hearer who, on an adventure of her own, is fleeing her hushand.
Two childhood friends resolve their lives in a madcap and unexpected way on a memorable midsummer's eve. A pioneer woman homesteading in the Canadian wilderness with her new husband and his brother devises a clever stratagem for eluding the certain and dire fate that awaits her if she remains on the farm.
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Women, Fiction, Social life and customs, Canadian fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, short stories (single author), Canada, fiction, Mujeres, Vida social y costumbres, Canadian Short stories, Cuentos canadienses, Ficción, American literature, Politics and government, Civil service, Congresses, Public institutions, Information technology, Economic aspects, Case studiesPlaces
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Gong kai de mi mi: Open secrets / Alice Munro
2013, Feng huang chu ban chuan mei gu fen you xian gong si, Yi lin chu ban she
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Open Secrets: Stories
November 1995, Tandem Library
Unknown Binding
in English
1417719125 9781417719129
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Open secrets: stories
1994, A.A. Knopf, Distributed by Random House
in English
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In these eight tales, Munro evokes the devastating power of old love suddenly recollected. She tells of vanished schoolgirls and indentured frontier brides and an eccentric recluse who, in the course of one surpassingly odd dinner party, inadvertently lands herself a wealthy suitor from exotic Australia. And Munro shows us how one woman's romantic tale of capture and escape in the high Balkans may end up inspiring another woman who is fleeing a husband and lover in present-day Canada.
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