And yet Munro trusts her readers she believes that we will pay attention to all these things and more. Taken together, they form an intricate web of relationships and connections, falsehood and anecdote, a kind of fictional palimpsest laid over the faint traces of plot. There are stories that begin with their endings, and several more that end with beginnings others are told from three or four different angles, each with varying degrees of reliability. "The Albanian Virgin" is two stories in one: the first-the fanciful tale of Ghegs kidnapping a young Canadian woman-is told within the second, about a bookstore owner who has lost her own bearings after a divorce. In "Carried Away," for instance, a dead character makes a sudden, inexplicable appearance in what is otherwise the thoroughly naturalistic account of a librarian's disappointment with love.
What is the important thing? What do you want us to pay attention to? Think." What does Alice Munro want us to pay attention to in her Selected Stories? Everything, really, and so her narratives loop back on themselves, jump decades backward and forward in time, introduce characters who later drop out of the action, and generally break every rule in the short-story-writing book. Publishers Description: "Too many things," a creative writing instructor tells the narrator of "Differently." "Too many things going on at the same time also too many people. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.
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