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Article: MUNRO SHARES SNAPSHOTS OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE.(COMMENTARY)(Review)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- December 8, 1996
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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 ...