![]() ![]() "The Albanian Virgin" is two stories in one: the first-the fanciful tale of Ghegs kidnapping a young Canadian woman-is told within the second, about a bookstore owner who has lost her own bearings after a divorce. In "Carried Away," for instance, a dead character makes a sudden, inexplicable appearance in what is otherwise the thoroughly naturalistic account of a librarian's disappointment with love. What is the important thing? What do you want us to pay attention to? Think." What does Alice Munro want us to pay attention to in her Selected Stories? Everything, really, and so her narratives loop back on themselves, jump decades backward and forward in time, introduce characters who later drop out of the action, and generally break every rule in the short-story-writing book. "Too many things," a creative writing instructor tells the narrator of "Differently." "Too many things going on at the same time also too many people. ![]()
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