The New Yorker December 29, 1980

New York: the New Yorker, 1980. Magazine. VG Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 74. Fully illustrated. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Features: The Poem "Greetings Friends" by Roger Angell and the short story "Turkey Season" by Alice Munro. Munro's father, Robert Eric Laidlaw, was a fox and mink farmer and later turned to turkey farming.Munro began writing as a teenager, publishing her first story, "The Dimensions of a Shadow", in 1950 while studying English and journalism at the University of Western Ontario on a two-year scholarship. In 1951, she left the university, where she had been majoring in English since 1949, to marry fellow student James Munro. They moved to Dundarave, West Vancouver, for James's job in a department store. In 1963, the couple moved to Victoria, where they opened Munro's Books, which still operates. .Since 1984, the store has been located in downtown Victoria in a neo-classical building (Royal Bank Building) with a 24-foot (7.3 m) coffered ceiling, designed in 1909 for the Royal Bank of Canada by architect Thomas Hooper. Munro's Books has been described by journalist Allan Fotheringham as "the most magnificent bookstore in Canada, possibly in North America".