Cover
Contents
Preface: "I Want to Do This with Honour, If I Possibly Can"
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Of Late Styles and Alice Munro
1 "Maybe I Can Do Something Unexpected with It": Imagining The View from Castle Rock
2 "It Is Difficult to Decide What Works in a Book of This Sort": The Making of The View from Castle Rock
3 "It Has Some Real Munrovian Highlights": "The View from Castle Rock" and The View from Castle Rock
4 "And Then Another Little Story Comes along and That Solves How Life Has Got to Be": The Recursions of Too Much Happiness

5 "It Seemed as If We Had Gotten Time Back, as If There Was All the Time in the World": The Gathering of Stories before the "Finale" in Dear Life
6 "Simple Truth": "Too Much Happiness" and the "Finale" to Dear Life
Epilogue: "To Have Got My Chance to Do It, as well as I Could": Alice Munro Finis
Notes
Works Cited
Index