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Margaret Atwood Reads Alice Munro

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Corey, Wake Up Wake Up, Darlene Corey

Alice's maid Sadie is changed to Lillian in the book Dear Life. Corey means maiden, which may have been a reference to Darlene Corey. Alice would watch foxes be skinned and sent off as part of her grieving process. She also has a fox collar that she wears but disowns.

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