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Thanks for the Ride I’m accustomed to thinking of Alice Munro as the chronicler of Lives of Girls and Women, so I was surprised to come upon a male narrator in “Thanks for the Ride”. Dickie is hanging out with his cousin, George, who is three years older, in Pop’s Cafe (can’t you just see it in the small lakeside town?), when he meets Adelaide, who suggests that they stop by Lois’ house and go for a drive. Tricky, isn’t it. Because ultimately it is a story about girls and women afterall. “But I did not want to talk any more, having discovered another force in her that lay side by side with her hostility, that was, in fact, just as enveloping and impersonal.
After a while I whispered: ‘Isn’t there some place we can go? Billy Squier The Tale Of The Tape Raritan more. ’” But it’s not necessarily the kind of story that was commonly told about girls and women. The Office And the same thing could be said about this fifth story, which is about a woman who declares herself a writer, something that took more determination and initiative in that time.
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“But here comes the disclosure which is not easy for me: I am a writer. That does not sound right.
Too presumptuous; phony, or at least unconvincing. Is that better?
I try to write. That makes it worse.
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However I put it, the words create their space of silence, the delicate moment of exposure.” I think this might turn out to be one of my favourite stories — settling in with novels like Carol Shields’ Unless and Ursula Hegi’s Intrusions — but it’s a story with an edge. You don’t get to “I really wanted to murder him” without an edge, do you. (Do you have other favourite novels about writers?) An Ounce of Cure Many readers will understand how the narrator, who loved Martin Collingwood even before, fell harder for him when he took the role of Mr. Darcy in the stage production of Pride and Prejudice at school. And they’ll understand, too, how she had to hate Mary Bishop a little, for playing his Elizabeth Bennet. This frequently anthologized story was likely one of my first exposures to Alice Munro as a schoolgirl, but it wasn’t a favourite at the time; now I wonder if that’s not because it captures the banal heartbreak of adolescent crushes just-a-little-too-brilliantly. (Have you resented some stories for being just too good?) “From this point on I have no continuous picture of what happened; my memories of the next hour or two are split into vivid and improbable segments, with nothing but murk and uncertainty between.” Have you read any Alice Munro lately?
You can join in with Dance of the Happy Shades if you like: Walker Brothers Cowboy; The Shining Houses; Images Thanks for the ride; The Office; An Ounce of Cure (above) The Time of Death; Day of the Butterfly; Boys and Girls FEB 16 Postcard; Red Dress – 1946; Sunday Afternoon FEB23 A Trip to the Coast; The Peace of Utrecht; Dance of the Happy Shades MAR2. Thanks again for the comments, Sandra: good to know that someone else is enjoying these early stories. If anyone else wants to join in, you can do so at any time.
Re: Walker Brothers Cowboy How interesting that it’s reputed to be Goderich. I did wonder about that (because of the proximity to Clinton), but the idea of it being a grain town threw me off. Mind you, now that I think about it, Goderich’s salt silos are actually silos of grains, aren’t they?! Re: Thanks for the Ride Or was it that none of them is as innocent as it seemed Lois’ experiences do seem to have a certain worldliness, but it’s almost as though they’ve all had at least some awareness of those experiences but only she has been marked as such. Judged by that admission. Re: The Office I really enjoyed the fact that you kind of think you know where this story is goingbutthat’s the delicious part of some of these. Re: Ounce of Cure I’m not sure if that’s entirely it.
Although I do think she’s captured something significant here, I felt at a real distance the whole way through. Maybe that sense of fuzziness is due to the narrator’s state?! Of her coming-of-age tales, I think others have resonated more strongly for me. An Ounce of Cure Munro tells these coming-of-age stories with kindness and genuine empathy but they have less depth for me now: it must be my age right? I do, however, like the Pride and Prejudice images and I think they strengthen the basic theme considerably.