So what about me? Would I always have to find a high horse? The moral relish, the rising above, the being in the right, which can make me flaunt my losses.
Alice MunroThe images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair.
Alice MunroWhat she wants to do if she can get the time to do it, is not so much to live in the past as to open it up and get one good look at it".
Alice MunroLuck took me right out of myself - I read it in one gulp, and it never let me down. Sharp and surprising but always responsible, no tricks for tricks' sake; so satisfying, with its shifting and puzzles. So much fiction turns out to be diversion, in spite of fancy claims, and doesn't really look at anything. Well - this does.
Alice Munro