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THE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday May 19M Book Review Munro collection eagerly awaited By ALLAN GOULD It is hard not to breathless with anticipation What the Stanley Cup playoffs are to hockey fans what Academy Awards are to movie star lovers that surely is what a new collec tion of short stories by Alice Munro is to followers of No make that world literature Because with her latest volume Friend of My Youth McClelland and Stewart 273 pages as if she did not already prove herself with the Progress of Love and Moons of Jupiter southwest Ontarios has shown once more to be legitimately spoken of in the same breath as the Grace Paley and Nathaniel Hawthorne Russias Isaac Babel afid and even Irelands James Joyce It is a breathtaking achievement and to use the imagery of our first I paragraph Ms Munros artistry is the same league as Gretzky and Howe Streep and de Nlro And SFo review these fairly lengthy short stories only one is snorter than 20 pages and that one is 19 I several are closer to 30 pages is to review novels for that is how complex now dense how dimrily intricate each story is dotted with lines that leap off the page and into your very soul creating echoes of agreement of sad recollection of delight Heres an example from the ceUwit Five You can make love in a hurry if you have to but you need time for a fight Is that what theyre starting on A fight She feels edgy but happy Her happiness is tight and private not the sort that flows out from you and fuzzes everything up and makes you good careless about what you say The very opposite Shs feels light and sharp and unconnected EXQUISITE Indeed every exquisite story has a sort of epiphany that moment often ter inevitably when a character sees hisher life in a whole new way Here is such a moment from the astonishing Oh Whet Avails The threat is of a change but its not the sort of change one has been warned For All Your Fine China Silver Crystal Glflware MAIN ST MILTON 8780050 about Its just this that suddenly without warning Joan is apt to think Rubble Rubble You can down a street and you can see the shadows the light the brick walls the truck parked under a tree the dog lying on the sidewalk the dark summer awning or the grayed snowdrift you can see all these things in their temporary separateness all connected underneath such a troubling satisfying necessary in describable way Or you can see rubble Passing states a useless variety of passing states Rubble Joanswants to keep tins idea of rubble at bay She pays attention now tu all the ways in which people seem todo that But Alice magnificent stories are far more than the sum of their parts and to even suggest that the above examples can give you a taste of their perfection is like humming a few bars of Beethovens Ninth Symphony to a nearly hearing person and assum that he now understands the majesty of that work In Menesteung the tion of 19thcentury small town On tario serves to enrich the remarkable creation of the Character of Roth and ultimately Munros profound thoughts about the role of the artist in society And although her wit ever present She thought him a bachelor edgy air of satisfaction didnt usually survive married life the story in which those very funny lines appear Hold Me Fast Dont Let Me Pass is a deeply serious and thoughtful look at marriage and love and the travails of both In fact the previous lines could be used to describe nearly every one of these utterly magnificent stories ASTOUNDING Echoing justifiably wildly favorable front page of Friend of My Youth in the New Times Book Review this critic also longs to list every single story as my favorite The title story is not only one persons at BakeiY British Bakers British Breads Pastries J 330 Guetph St Georgetown ACROSS FnOMHBLSOHS Mtn4ii 8770596 Resigning Ways CUSTOM DISIOHS MOTHERS DAY SPECIAL 10 ALL SILKS GIVE THE EVERLASTING GIFT tempt to understand childhood friends of her mothers but through them to better connect with her mother herself Oranges and Apples is an utterly fascinating study of a marriage and the impact of an outsider on the same Differently confronts the question that we must all confront n our lifetimes How we could and perhaps should behave dif ferently were we to actually believe that we were going to die And Wigtime is so hilarious yet so powerfully moving that it would be impossible to describe without reproducing the story itself It is astounding What then can a reviewer write when confronting the latest glories of Alice Munro Perhaps the best way would be to recall the humorous words of a famous Broadway theatre critic who com plained a halfcentury ago that he was always depressed when the lights went dovai on a stage because he knew it wouldnt be the Marx Brothers tonight In the same way this writer is almost enraged when he sees all the people on the subways and beaches carrying around copies of Tom Clancy and Danielle Steel and Sidney Sheldon For heavens sake why waste your time on them when you could be reading Alice Munro Allan Gould a Toronto author and reviewer has had 16 books published including the co authored Child Finder the story of Canadas greatest tracker of miss ing children and The Great Wiped Out North a book of Canadian political satire fit Beginning April HAPPY DAZE Party Every Sunday Winston Churchill in Komi Ontario BRAND re 74t By Hughes Sales Rep 8730300 I must say there is lots to talk about this week The biggest problem I am having is the most important issue to address Certainly the most topical is interest rates which is on the minds of most people today however on a scale of l to I am rating it about a on my scale of what to talk about Id far rather talk about bow to get your home sold in this market or what can your real estate sales rep do for beyond the call of duty to help facilitate a sale But perhaps Ill ad dress those issues in my next columns as I am now writing again every week So onward and lets get things into perspective about this little issue Firstly interest rates are not sky high if we are comparing this era to Having talked to some agents who weathered the storm of the last crisis market I think we have only a situation to be dealt with not a problem You see when interest rates climbed to the ceiling in 198182 we were all unprepared for the effects that this was going to have and didnt know how to approach the situation This time we are much more knowledgeable thank goodness I You are probably reading the ton of media hype that is constantly passed before your eyes listening to the propaganda on the radio and even worse when you turn on the TV you are bombarded with the latest economic forecast What the media is not telling you is that there are ways around this dilemma Look carefully at the ads and you will find that in a lot of cases there will be some mention of a mortgage that can be arranged at much Jess than the current interest rates 1 think that the reason that we are not having a flood of calls about this is that the general public does not understand what this means and if they do have any idea of what its about they think that it is not applicable to them or worse they think that it is just a comeon Wrong Lets look at what these ads mean Generally speaking if an ad reads 11 per cent financing available or Vendor will arrange an per cent mortgage for 1 year this is what those lines mean to you The person selling the home the vendor has decided that order to sell his house and obtain a willing buyer he will buy down a mor for the purchaser for one year I know I know you dont know what a buy down mortgage is do you Of course you dont This means that the vendor will pay an upfront cost to the lending institu tion of your choice the difference in the interest rate from the current rate to per cent for one year This amount varies depending upon how much mortgage money the new purchaser wants and what the going rate is But no matter what the figures are the vendor has agreed that this is what he will do To you the purchaser it means that you can obtain a 1year mor at 11 per cent or whatever rate is advertised and know that for at least a year you dont have to worry about the rates providing you qualify for a mortgage at the current rate You don have to go to a bank of the vendors choice you are free to choose which institution you please and you don t have to do anything special except make sure that the clause is written into your offer by your real estate rep Even if you see a home that you would like to buy and you don t see any mention about this little perk ask your rep about it for most ven dors are willing to do this in order to get their homes sold So now you understand the meaning of those ads and you should take advantage of it Prices are very good lower than a year ago and you can arrange a mortgage to suit yourself with the knowledge that I have given you You can now be an informed purchaser lucking in to low prices and reasonable mortgages Now t that 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