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The Beggar Maid<\/strong><\/em><\/span>
\nby\u00a0Alice Munro (1979)
\nVintage (1991)
\n210 pp<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"The-Beggar-Maid\"It’s time to move on from a nearly year-long adventure with Munro’s third book, Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You<\/em>, to Munro’s fourth, 1978’s The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose<\/em> (called Who Do You Think You Are?<\/em> elsewhere). We will soon be posting our thoughts on the first story, and I wanted to get this index post up so that any of you who are interested in joining us can get the book and get started.<\/p>\n

The Beggar Maid<\/em> is a collection of short stories that also passes as a novel (hence, it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, a prize that only considers novels). Here we will follow the life of Rose and her stepmother Flo. As with Lives of Girls and Women<\/em>, the stories here will jump around in setting and perspective, each packing their own punch while creating a larger picture.<\/p>\n

This\u00a0is the anchor post, an index with links to our posts on each story in the collection.<\/p>\n

The Beggar Maid<\/em> contains the following stories:<\/p>\n