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The Moons of Jupiter

The Moons of Jupiter
Alice Munro

The Moons of Jupiter is a book of short stories by Alice Munro, published by Macmillan of Canada in 1982. It was nominated for the 1982 Governor General's Award for English Fiction. The title of the collection follows from the last short story in the collection "The Moons of Jupiter".

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“The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair.”

Alice Munro book The Moons of Jupiter

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“They were all in their early thirties. An age at which it is sometimes hard to admit that what you are living is your life.”

Alice Munro book The Moons of Jupiter

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