Alice Munro by Brenda Pfaus

Author:Brenda Pfaus [Pfaus, Brenda]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Canada, Art, Canadian, Post-Confederation (1867-), Literary, Biography & Autobiography, History
ISBN: 9781459715462
Google: JRETYeGQciAC
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 1984-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The Flats Road was the last place my mother wanted to live. As soon as her feet touched the town sidewalk and she raised her head, grateful for town shade after Flat Roads sun, a sense of relief, a new sense of consequence flowed from her.

(Lives, p. 6)

Eventually Ida moves the family into town (although, “later on she was to find she did not belong in Jubilee either”) to a house on River Road with its symbolic connotations of mobility. Del is torn between the two worlds. In town she reminisces about the old house “with a forlorn, faintly guilty, tender pain” missing the nearness of the river and the swamp, “the real anarchy of winter blizzards that shut us up tight in our house,” “the order, the wholeness, the intricate arrangement of town life.” Del’s father spent weekends in town, returning weekly to the fox farm and Uncle Benny’s world because unlike his wife

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