“She is our Chekhov”
MUNRO, Alice; Hugh GARNER (Foreword). Dance of the Happy Shades. Toronto: The Ryerson Press. 1968.
8vo. Original green buckram lettered in gilt to spine, in dustwrapper, olive green endpapers; xiv, 224, [2]; neat contemporary gift inscription to front pastedown, wrapper lightly faded to spine and rubbed to upper spine tip; a near fine copy in like wrapper.
An uncommonly bright, sharp first edition, first printing of The Nobel Prize-winning Canadian author’s debut volume.
The stories of Dance of the Happy Shades, Alice Munro’s first book, are set in the farms, towns and suburbs of western Ontario, territory the author would make her own over the following decades. They render, with characteristically luminous precision, the seemingly ordinary lives of her characters. “She is our Chekhov”, Cynthia Ozick has written of Munro, “and is going to outlast most of her contemporaries”.
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