Dance of the Happy Shades: And Other Stories

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FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, AUGUST 1998

Copyright © 1968, copyright renewed 1996 by Alice Munro

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in Canada by The Ryerson Press in 1968, and in the United States by McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, in 1973.

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A number of the stories (some in slightly different form) were originally published in magazines: “The Peace of Utrecht” and “Thanks for the Ride” in Tamarack Review; “Dance of the Happy Shades,” “Boys and Girls,” “An Ounce of Cure,” and “The Office” in The Montrealer; “The Time of Death” and “Sunday Afternoon” in The Canadian Forum. “Day of the Butterfly” appeared as “Goodbye Myra” in Chatelaine. “The Shining Houses” and “A Trip to the Coast” first were read on the CBC program Anthology.

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.

eISBN: 978-0-307-81454-8

Canada—Social life and customs—Fiction. I. Title.

PR9199.3.M8D3 1998

813′.54—dc21 98-5267

Author photograph © Jerry Bauer

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