Alice Munro's territory is the farms and semi-rural towns of south-western ontario. In these dazzling stories she deals with the self-discovery of adolescence, the joys and pains of love and the despair and guilt of thos...Alice Munro's territory is the farms and semi-rural towns of south-western ontario. In these dazzling stories she deals with the self-discovery of adolescence, the joys and pains of love and the despair and guilt of those caught in a narrow existence.