![]() The librarian, for instance, tells of the soldier who wooed her by mail during World War I, then came home and married another girl. Seems almost revealed, the story changes, veers, steps off a cliff. And none of these eight stories are easy to predict. ![]() "Carried Away" isn't really about women making fools of themselves. Sometimes even the characters themselves have only a fuzzy notion of what their own stories mean. Munro's work hasĪlways been ambitious and risky precisely because it dares to teach, and by the hardest, best method: without giving answers. And in fact, all the stories in "Open Secrets" are lessons. The story, aptly entitled "Carried Away," is the first in Alice Munro's new collection, "Open Secrets," her eighth work of fiction. ![]() "It'sĪ lesson in what fools women can make of themselves." "It's a lesson, this story," the librarian says. ON a winter night in 1919, in a hotel dining room in Carstairs, Ontario, a librarian who's had a few drinks begins to tell her darkest secrets to a salesman she barely knows. ![]() September 11, 1994, Sunday, Late Edition - Final ![]()
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