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《Dance of the happy shades》 by Alice Munro ——For Robert E. Laidlaw About the Author——Alice Munro Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published twelve collections of stories and two volumes of selected stories, as well as a novel. During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including three of Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Awards and two of its Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, England’s W. H. Smith Book Award, the United States’ National Book Critics Circle Award, the Edward MacDowell Medal in literature, and the Man Booker International Prize. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. Alice Munro lives in Clinton, Ontario, near Lake Huron. ALSO BY ALICE MUNRO·作者的其他作品 The View from Castle Rock Carried Away Runaway Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage The Love of a Good Woman Selected Stories Open Secrets Friend of My Youth The Progress of Love The Moons of Jupiter The Beggar Maid Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You Lives of Girls and Women Dance of the Happy Shades Contents Walker Brothers Cowboy The Shining Houses Images Thanks for the Ride The Office An Ounce of Cure The Time of Death Day of the Butterfly Boys and Girls Postcard Red Dress—1946 Sunday Afternoon A Trip to the Coast The Peace of Utrecht Dance of the Happy Shades WALKER BROTHERS COWBOY After supper my father says, “Want to go down and see if the Lake’s still there?” We leave my mother sewing under the dining-room light, making clothes for me against the opening of school. She has ripped up for this purpose an old suit and an old plaid wool dress of hers, and she has to cut and match very cleverly and also make me stand and turn for endless fittings, sweaty, itching from the hot wool, ungrateful. We