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Open Secrets (Paperback)

by Alice Munro (Author)
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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (9 Mar 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 009945971X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099459712
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 122,209 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A.S. Byatt

'Alice Munro excites the writer in me – there is something new to learn from her in every sentence'


Lucy Hughes-Hallet, Sunday Times

‘Alice Munro's stories are miraculous'
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4.0 out of 5 stars Please Open Secrets, 4 Feb 2003
On the whole, I have to confess my annoyance at the short story; I find it amazingly difficult to immerse myself in the plot, where you know 20 pages later, you'll be met with a happily rounded- off story and little to mull over. So thank God for Open Secrets! In this, Alice Munro twists and pulls the short story genre until it is as unrecognisable as it is unpredictable- so very rereshing!
In Open Secrets the stories do not revolve around plot, allowing the reader to become connected through location, character relations and intrigue rather than linear events. For example, the title story centres on the small- town gossip of a local girl's murder, and while we don't ever find out the truth of events, a woman's intuition and the insight we get into small community life tells us more than we can articulate. For it is this that makes Munro's collection so marvellous- the fact that we can read a story and arrive at a feeling, rather than a conclusion, articulating not the truth, but feminine ideology and selfhood.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Open Secrets, 1 Feb 2009
Wondefful evocation of old rural Canada. Strong characters, some stories humdrum others real gems both written 'eloquently'
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