Word: munro
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inside view on child- welfare problems. Ladybird, Ladybird is. This English drama about a worst-case child-custody scenario may show those who make social policy how hard it is to legislate love, lust, neglect, despair and other real-family values. Ken Loach's film, written by Rona Munro and based on a true story, horrifies and edifies in equal measure...
...inside view on child- welfare problems. Ladybird, Ladybird is. This English drama about a worst-case child-custody scenario may show those who make social policy how hard it is to legislate love, lust, neglect, despair and other real-family values. Ken Loach's film, written by Rona Munro and based on a true story, horrifies and edifies in equal measure...
...Open Secrets by Alice Munro (Knopf). Once more the Canadian writer supplies rich, daring and satisfying short stories, all rooted in rural Ontario, most of them about women balanced uneasily between a conventional past and a present that tips them in new and strange directions. The constants in Munro's stories are remorseless time, blind fate and the author's wry sense of the bizarre hidden in the ordinary...
...takes some living to get to this insight. Other than Munro's considerable talent, the only constants in these stories are remorseless time and blind fate. This does not mean that Munro can't have a little fun. The Jack Randa Hotel is high comedy in which a woman secretly follows her runaway husband to New Zealand, where she intercepts his letters to a woman he does not know is dead. The abandoned wife then has her small revenge by forging snotty but elegantly written responses...
...stories have roots in rural Ontario, where Munro, the daughter of a mink rancher, grew up. The area seems as familiar as the American Midwest, a flat, unexciting setting where even the bizarre can be made to seem ordinary. A missing girl returns to tell about an encounter with a spaceship. The extraterrestrials are not green and stalky but all-Canadian kids wearing seersucker sunsuits. This, of course, is an unbelievable fiction within a totally credible fiction. Munro demonstrates her mastery of this linkage throughout Open Secrets, where each story is richer and more satisfying than most novels...