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Title	:	Dance of the Happy Shades
Author	:	Alice Munro
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 240 pages
Published	:	March 2nd 2000 by Vintage (first published 1968)
Categories	:	Short Stories. Fiction. Cultural. Canada

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Alice Munro's territory is the farms and semi-rural towns of south-western Ontario. In these dazzling stories she deals with the self-discovery of adolescence, the joys and pains of love and the despair and guilt of those caught in a narrow existence. And in sensitively exploring the lives of ordinary men and women, she makes us aware of the universal nature of their fears, sorrows and aspirations.

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Original Title:	Dance of the Happy Shades
ISBN:	0099273772 (ISBN13: 9780099273776)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Canada
Literary Awards:	Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for Fiction (1974), Governor General's
Literary Awards:	/ Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général for Fiction (1968)

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Like the children in fairy stories who have seen their parents make pacts with terrifying strangers, who have discovered that our fears are based on nothing but the truth, but who come back fresh from marvellous escapes and take up their knives and forks, with humility and good manners, prepared to live happily ever after-like them, dazed and powerful with secrets, I never said a word. (Images)Thankfully Munro stores up those childhood secrets and works them with a strange alchemy into gold.

Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice MunroI really liked this book.I liked it a LOT.Ok I loved it!Ive been meaning to read work by Alice Munro for a while so when I found a second hand copy of Dance of the Happy Shades for a few dollars, I picked it up. This book is a Governor Generals Award winning collection of short stories.The following quote by Hugh Garner in the forward to this book, pretty much, in my opinion, describes the quality and essence of Ms. Munros writing.The second-rate writers,

I read Munro's first book one and a half years ago and I thought she was the best short story writer I've ever encountered. 'Dance of the Happy Shades' is her fourth book I've read, and I stood corrected.One sign of a great writer is if you can literally read anything written by her and think it's awesome. It is what I feel with Munro. Her works are humble. Different from other (usually male) writers with grandiose vocabularies and exhibitionist tendencies, Munro chose to deliver in colloquial

Intro (this piece inspired the title story): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BN7TG...Does anyone remember Steves review of Lydia Daviss Collected Stories when he said Lydia Davis shits out tiny nuggets of pure golden prose and says 'oh, this old thing'?I didnt exactly agree with him on the Lydia Davis front, but I would love to steal that quote and use it in reference to Alice Munro.Alice Munro is a master story teller. No, she didnt twist my brain into knots and exasperate me. No, she didnt

Have read and re-read some of these stories. Feels like historical fiction in that it takes us to a time where houses do not have electricity. Munro's sentence structures can be idiosyncratic, yet as a writer she is always rewarding. This collection (her first) won a GG (prestigious Canadian literary award); yet her subsequent work is even better.

The first story collection by the Canadian future Nobel laureate.Book Review: Dance of the Happy Shades seems fresh and new, many of the stories told from the perspective of children moving from innocence to experience, learning about life as things are, and not yet to the point in Alice Munro's later, darker stories where things are not always as they should be. Although the stories are set in rural Canada, she writes of universal experiences, captures those moments of humanity that afflict us

From "Boys and Girls": "I no longer felt safe. It seemed that in the minds of the people around me there was a steady undercurrent of thought, not to be deflected, on this one subject. The word girl had formerly seemed to me innocent and unburdened, like the word child; now it appeared that it was no such thing. A girl was not, as I had supposed, simply what I was; it was what I had to become. It was a definition, always touched with emphasis, with reproach and disappointment. Also it was a joke