Lives of Mothers and Daughters : Growing up with Alice Munro

English

ISBN: 0771066694

EAN: 9780771066696

Category: Literary Criticism / Canadian/Biography & Autobiography / General/

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart

Release Date: 04/01/2001

Synopsis: So much of what I think I know and I think I know more about my mothers life than almost any daughter could know is refracted through the prism of her writing. Such is the power of her fiction that sometimes it even feels as though Im living inside an Alice Munro story. The millions of people around the world who read Alice Munros work are enthralled by her insight into the human heart. Consider, then, what it would be like to have a mother who was so all-knowing. Worse, if that mother were world-famous as you were growing up and trying to make your own way as a writer, while you yourself followed in her footsteps, raising a family and trying to write on the side. That is Sheila Munros dilemma, and it gives this book special fascination for anyone interested in their own relationship with their own mother, or their own daughter. This book is, in effect, an intimate, affectionate biography of Alice Munro. It describes in a way that only a close relative could, the details of the family background. We follow the family history from the Laidlaws who left Scotland in the early 19th century, to Alice Munros birth in 1931, her early years and marriage all the way to the current family, including Alice Munros grandchildren. One of the many fascinations of the book is that faithful readers of Alices work and are there any other kind? will find constant echoes of settings, situations, and characters that occur in her fiction. So this book is not only a fascinating biography of Alice Munro, it also provides an informative commentary to the stories we all know. But Sheila Munro goes further. As a writer growing up in the shadow of a writing mother, shes able to write frankly and personally about being a daughter and about being a writer. With the publication of this book richly embellished with scores of family photographs Sheila Munro has established herself as a skilled and successful author in her own right. Includes dozens of fascinating Munro family snapshots scattered throughout the text Full of real-life details that will fascinate any Alice Munro fan

Lives of Mothers and Daughters : Growing up with Alice Munro

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Weight: 21.16 oz

Pages: 280