The explosive recent public revelation that the late Alice Munro, a celebrated Canadian Nobel Prize-winning author, sided with her sexually exploitive second husband at the expense of her own exploited daughter, Andrea Skinner, came as a shock worldwide. Read this article for free: Already have an account? To continue reading, please subscribe: * The explosive recent public revelation that the late Alice Munro, a celebrated Canadian Nobel Prize-winning author, sided with her sexually exploitive second husband at the expense of her own exploited daughter, Andrea Skinner, came as a shock worldwide. Read unlimited articles for free today: Already have an account? Opinion The explosive recent public revelation that the late Alice Munro, a celebrated Canadian Nobel Prize-winning author, sided with her sexually exploitive second husband at the expense of her own exploited daughter, Andrea Skinner, came as a shock worldwide.
But should it have? Is it not what her stories were telling us for some time? That despite the brilliant self-inventions and steppings-out of the girls and women of her earlier fictions — most notably in , the luminous collection of linked stories published in 1974 at the height of the women’s movement and admired and loved by millions — she herself had chosen to step back into an older social conventionality in her fictions. And also, it seems, in her life. In effect, she retreated back into a fairly restricted realm of domesticity, whose rules included �.