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Margaret Atwood Reads Alice Munro

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Circle Game, Dance of the Happy Shades

I was 29 or so when I read Dance of the Happy Shades. My experience of centuries of short story writing was not vast. People think of Alice as being the sort of spontaneous writer and that's all from real life, etc,. But actually she's quite a composing writer. And my aim was to show that it was in fact a novel. Much to everybody's surprise including mine.

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