Alice Munro - Who Do You Think You Are?
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PENGUIN CANADA
Who Do You Think You Are?
ALICE MUNRO grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published many books, including Dance of the Happy Shades; Lives of Girls and Women; Something Ive Been Meaning to Tell You; The Moons of Jupiter; The Progress of Love; Friend of My Youth; Open Secrets; The Love of a Good Woman; Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage; and Runaway; as well as Selected Stories , an anthology of stories culled from her dazzling body of work.
During her distinguished career, Munro has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including the W.H. Smith Award in the United Kingdom and, in the United States, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, the Lannan Literary Award, and the Rea Award for the Short Story.
In Canada, her prize-winning record is so extraordinary three Governor Generals Awards, two Giller Prizes, the Trillium Book Award, the Jubilee Prize, and the Libris Award, among many othersthat it has been ironically suggested that as such a perennial winner, she no longer qualifies for new prizes. Abroad, acclaim continues to pour in. Runaway and Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage won the Commonwealth Writers Prize Best Book Award, Caribbean and Canada region, and were chosen as one of the Books of the Year by The New York Times .
Alice Munros stories appear regularly in The New Yorker , as well as in The Atlantic Monthly , Saturday Night, and The Paris Review . She and her husband divide their time between Clinton, Ontario, and Comox, British Columbia.
WAYNE JOHNSTON is the author of the novels The Story of Bobby OMalley, The Time of Their Lives, The Divine Ryans, Human Amusements, and The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, and of Baltimores Mansion, a memoir.
Also by Alice Munro
Dance of the Happy Shades
Lives of Girls and Women
Something Ive Been Meaning to Tell You
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
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First published in Viking by Macmillan of Canada Limited, 1978, a division of Canada Publishing Corporation
Published in Penguin Canada paperback by Penguin Group (Canada), a division of Pearson Canada Inc., 1991, 1996
Published in this edition, 2006
(WEB) 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Copyright Alice Munro, 1978
Introduction copyright Wayne Johnston, 2006
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Publishers note: This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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ISBN-10: 0-14-305495-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-305495-5
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Some of these stories have been published previously:
Privilege in Ms., September 1978 (under the title The Honeymans Daughter);
Spelling in Weekend, June 1978;
Half a Grapefruit in Redbook, May 1978;
Mischief in Viva, April 1978;
Wild Swans in Toronto Life, March 1978;
Providence in Redbook, August 1977;
The Beggar Maid in The New Yorker, June 1977; and
Royal Beatings in The New Yorker, March 1977.
I was in university when I first read the short story Half a Grapefruit, which is, in a strange way, one of my favourite Alice Munro stories. Or perhaps I should say that it contains one of my favourite Alice Munro moments.
For months after reading the collection of linked stories called Who Do You Think You Are?, and especially the story Half a Grapefruit, I was hyper-self-conscious. I repeated the title as a kind of mantra of self-censorship. I frequently found myself about to say something, only to have the words half a grapefruit pop up in my mind, a dam against whatever I had been about to blurt out which I would then inwardly re-examine to determine what the consequences might be for me of speaking my mind. Half a grapefruit, half a grapefruit.
Anything that could pass what I called the grapefruit test was safe to say out loud. Anything that in my head sounded like something that would be scorned in the fictional town of Hanratty I kept to myself. Friends noticed that I was slow in responding to questions, more reticent than usual in conversation, forever hanging fire instead of spewing out in my customary manner what I thought, and assumed other people thought, were euphemisms.
I guessed that I had said to myself something as seemingly innocuous yet somehow as affected as half a grapefruit hundreds of times since enrolling at that university.
I thought, My God, I wonder who these people think I am. I wonder what sort of place they think I came from. Or rather come from. For that was an important distinction, and one of the discoveries of Rose in the bookthat your hometown is not a place of the past but forever one of the present, a place that you are forever coming from.
Years later, after I was at least no longer consciously using the grapefruit test even if, as I suspect, I was still using it at some subconscious level, I witnessed a girl implicate herself exactly as Rose had done in that fictional classroom in Hanratty. I have never seen life imitate art so nearly exactly.
I was part of what is called a running clinic. People who like to run long distance received instruction from a proven marathoner, the clinic instructor. The instructor asked clinic members to speak up about what they ate before a race. Amidst shouts of such safe choices as Cheerios and pop tarts the girl shouted, as if she was sure this was the right answer, hot oatmeal.
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