Dance of the Happy Shades explained

Dance of the Happy Shades
Author:	Alice Munro
Country:	Canada
Language:	English
Genre:	Short story collection
Publisher:	Ryerson Press
Pub Date:	1968
Pages:	xi, 224 pages (1st edition)
Awards:	1968 Governor General's Award
Isbn:	0-099-27377-2

Dance of the Happy Shades is a book of short stories by Alice Munro, published by Ryerson Press in 1968.^[1] It was her first collection of stories and won the 1968 Governor General's Award for English Fiction. The title of the main story is the English translation provided for the ballet in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice when it was first presented in London.^[2]

Stories

• "Walker Brothers Cowboy"
• "The Shining Houses"
• "Images"
• "Thanks for the Ride"
• "The Office"
• "An Ounce of Cure"
• "The Time of Death"
• "Day of the Butterfly"
• "Boys and Girls"
• "Postcard"
• "Red Dress - 1946"
• "Sunday Afternoon"
• "A Trip to the Coast"
• "The Peace of Utrecht"
• "Dance of the Happy Shades"

Notes and References

1. Preface. Dance of the Happy Shades. Alice Munro. First Vintage contemporaries Edition, August 1998. Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, Inc. New York.
2. Web site: Vancouver Book Fair - Fair Past Exhibitors . 2013-12-10 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131213092001/http://www.vancouverbookfair.com/gallery_details.php?Gallery_ID=41 . 2013-12-13 . Vancouver Book Fair: First edition. Retrieved on: 10 December 2013.