well, Janet doesn’t know where this other daughter is. One picked her up at the airport, and Janet is going to stay at her house while she and her boyfriend go on holiday. Janet has two adult daughters living close to Toronto. Janet’s marriage in Vancouver has broken up, and she - a relatively well known author - is a bit unmoored, traveling back to Canada from London so she can be with her father. There’s a good chance he won’t survive, but without the surgery he will definitely be dead in a few months. It is told from the perspective of a woman named Janet who has come to Toronto because her father is about to undergo surgery. Besides mass I think of space, the vast space that separates these bodies that are, nevertheless, joined together in a dance around the sun. Jupiter is, of course, incomprehensibly gigantic, pulling into its orbit many smaller bodies, each with fascinatingly unique characteristics. When I picture the moons of Jupiter, I picture great mass. Sure, the actual Galilean moons - Io, Europa, Callisto, Ganymede - come up in a conversation late in this piece, but their significance as distant orbiting bodies has deep meaning. As I’ve been reading this, I’ve been mulling over what “the moons of Jupiter” have to do with this collection and, now, with this particular story. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Saturday Night, The Paris Review, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages.Īlice Munro divides her time between Clinton, Ontario, and Comox, British Columbia.Here we come to the final story in another Alice Munro collection, and again it is the title story. Smith Book Award, Italy's Pescara prize, the United States' National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Edward MacDowell Medal in literature. Elsewhere she has won the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, England's W. Here at home she has won too many awards to list, including three Governor General's Literary Awards, two Giller Prizes, several Trillium Prizes and a number of Libris Awards. During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including the recent Man Booker International Prize given to her in Dublin for "a body of work that has contributed to an achievement in fiction on the world stage." She has published fourteen previous books- Dance of the Happy Shades Lives of Girls and Women, Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You Who Do You Think You Are? The Moons of Jupiter The Progress of Love Friend of My Youth Open Secrets Selected Stories The Love of a Good Woman Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage Runaway The View from Castle Rock and Alice Munro's Best. Now 78, Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario.
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