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“Open Secretsis a book that dazzles with its faith in language and in life.” New York Times Book Review
Eight matchless stories, each one as rich as a full novel, from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.There is a remarkable magic in these storiesstories set in Ontario, Australia, Europe; in dangerous mountains, forbidding wilderness, familiar towns. In the title story, a lawyers wife has a flash of insightillogical, unprovable, and terrifyinginto the fate of a missing teenager; in another, the appearance of a long-dead visitor reveals the grip of a former love. 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.
Yet the true magic lies in the way that Alice Munro makes everything hereunexpected marriages, elopements, acts of sudden vengeanceunfold with the ease of the inevitable. This is the mark of a great writer, and it is stamped on every page of this book.
