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The Office


A Literary Fiction Short Story

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A short story from Nobel Prize–winning Alice Munro’s first collection, Dance of the Happy Shades.

The solution came to the writer one evening: she should have an office.

From Nobel Laureate Alice Munro, a brilliantly executed and revelatory story—one of the earliest published works of her career—in which simply finding a place to write turns out to be the hardest act of all.

In “The Office,” a selection from her first short story collection, Alice Munro demonstrates the precise observation, straightforward prose style, and masterful technique.

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