Article: MUNRO SHARES SNAPSHOTS OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE.(COMMENTARY)(Review)

Byline: DIANE SCHARPER

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ALICE MUNRO

Alfred A. Knopf. 545 pp. $30.

``I like looking at people's lives over a number of years, without continuity. Like catching them in snapshots. And I like the way people relate or don't relate to the people they were earlier .. . . I don't see people develop and arrive somewhere. I see people living in flashes.''

Thus Alice Munro suggests the secret behind her writing: She changes her pen into a camera. The camera photographs people in different stages of life, from different perspectives. The result is something like T.S. Eliot's ``Objective Correlative,'' a buildup of ...

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