Volume 37, Number 8 · May 17, 1990

Short Satisfactions

By Robert Towers
Friend of My Youth
by Alice Munro

Knopf, 273 pp., $18.95

Family Sins and Other Stories
by William Trevor

Viking, 251 pp., $18.95

Men Under Water
by Ralph Lombreglia

Doubleday, 212 pp., $17.95

Alice Munro (whose sixth collection of stories this is) amusingly suggests her approach to writing short fiction in the story 'Differently':



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