Open Secrets

In these eight tales, Munro evokes the devastating power of old love suddenly recollected. She tells of vanished schoolgirls and indentured frontier brides and an eccentric recluse who, in the course of one surpassingly odd dinner party, inadvertently lands herself a wealthy suitor from exotic Australia. And Munro shows us how one woman's romantic tale of capture and escape in the high Balkans may end up inspiring another woman who is fleeing a husband and lover in present-day Canada. "Open Secretsis a book that dazzles with its faith in language and in life."--New York Times Book Review

Alice Munro is the author of seven previous books: a novel, Lives of Girls and Women, and six collections of stories -- Dance of the Happy Shades, Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You, The Beggar Maid, The Moons of Jupiter, The Progress of Love, and Friend of My Youth. The stories in Open Secrets have appeared in The New Yorker and The Paris Review.<br><br>She and her husband live in Clinton, Ontario, near Late Huron, and in Comox, British Columbia.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>