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Life Stories
Solotaroff, Ted | November 28, 1994 issue

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The article discusses the book "Open Secrets," by Alice Munro. The stories in the book develop Munro's master theme from various points in time and from dramatically unexpected angles. In the story "A Wilderness Station," which mostly takes place in the early 1850s, the male insanity is all too literal. Despite its biblical references and over tones, the story is not an indictment of patriarchal oppression. Munro's imagination is constitutionally dialectical. Also, Munro often shifts the time frame and point of view to cover social ground.

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OPEN Secrets (Book); BOOKS; MUNRO, Alice; PATRIARCHY; INSANITY (Law); FICTION -- Technique
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