... how thin or strong it may seem. Robert Lacy writes about Munro's first story, "Walker Brothers Cowboy," which is from one of her earliest collections saying, Set during the Depression, it's a stark tale told from the point of view of a traveling salesman's daughter looking back on a day when their father took her and her little brother with him on his rounds. During the ... up. In one particular interview with D.J Bruckner, Munro herself expressed that her mother in particular kept popping up in many of her stories. Conducting the interview, Bruckner observes, "indeed, her mother's life...

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