Год: 2001
Автор: Alice Munro
Издательство: Vintage
Описание:
In these stories lives come into focus through single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface. The past, as Alice Munros characters discover, is made up not only of what is remembered, but also what isnt. The past is there, just out of the picture, but if memories havent been savoured, recalled in the mind and boxed away, its as if they have never been — until a moment when the pieces of the jigsaw re-form suddenly, sometimes pleasurably but more often painfully. Women look back at their young selves, at first marriages made when they were naive and trusting, at husbands and their difficult, demanding little ways. There is in this new collection an underlying heartbreak, a sense of regret in her characters for what might have been, for a fork in the road not taken, a memory suppressed in an act of prudent emotional housekeeping. But at the same time there is hope, there are second chances — here are people who reinvent themselves, seize life by…