![]() ![]() ![]() And yet, in spite of their stature, Munro’s characters feel stealthily – almost mystically – remote. Instead of singular ‘glimpses’, abrupt entrances and exits, characters are observed and felt at multiple points in space and time – whole lives fanning out in front of us amid remarkable sworls of detail (the name of the thing and the name of thing before it became the thing, an almost geological approach…). ![]() Move on.” ‘Tricks’ is slender, yes, (at just over thirty pages it’s not butting up against the ‘novella’ tag) but – as with so many of Munro’s works – it carries a disproportionate heft. Pritchett tells us “a certain unique or single effect,” Edgar Allan Poe instructs, while Carver emphasises narrative compactness too: “Get in. Her short stories defy the form’s very own laws: “a glimpse of something viewed from the corner of the eye,” V.S. ![]()
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