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Margaret Atwood Reads Alice Munro

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Is There a Difference Between the First and the Second?

I like it that she sticks up for herself in one version and doesn't in the other. She's full of sentiment. She wants her life the way it is. They've had a really good time. Within limits, you know, it's a very modest good time,. But it's a good time and much more than she would have had otherwise. He would have been out of there. And it certainly would not have got her what she wanted.

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