McClelland & Stewart, 2006 Alice's father has remarried, and Irlma has made many changes in the house. "Irlma is a stout and rosy woman, with tinted butterscotch curls, brown eyes in which there is still a sparkle, a look of emotional readiness, of being always on the brink
A new Friday fugue, running through this month, considering the ways in which our working lives appear on the pages of novels and short stories. Some of my favourite novels spend a good amount of time considering the good amount of time that we spend in our workplaces. Joshua Ferris'
The title of this story suggests a journey, travel and a destination. But the story itself focuses on the precursors to such events: the preparations and anticipation. McClelland & Stewart, 2006 Nonetheless, "The Ticket" is preoccupied with the concept of movement, shifting position, moving from one zone to another
In Alice Munro's first collection, Dance of the Happy Shades, readers meet Alva in "Sunday Afternoon". Alva is the hired girl for the Gannetts, who expect that she will dutifully perform in their home and, then, travel with them later in the summer to their parents' island in Georgian Bay.
Whether and how a girl rode a bicycle mattered a great deal in the 1950s in southwestern Ontario, for the young Alice Munro. 2006; Vintage, 2007 "We lived just beyond the town limits, so if I showed up riding a bicycle—and particularly this bicycle—it would put me in
