Leisure Letters
→ Peruse the Letters Archives
Restless Reader: she wanted the courage and the power
(Added 10 January 2011)
Image: Alice Munro, Who Do You Think You Are?, Macmillan of Canada, 1989
She had another feeling as well, not envy but a shaky sort of longing (…) She wanted to fill up in that magical, releasing way, transform herself; she wanted the courage and the power.
Alice Munro, Who Do You Think You Are?, 1978. (Macmillan of Canada, 1989, p. 200)
This is post four of the “Restless Reader” a Leisure bibliography of restlessness in literature.
Less Recent: Sally Potter's The Gold Diggers (1983)
More Recent: Restless Reader: A little while ago, when I picked them, they were living flowers.