Dance of the Happy Shades

Template:Short description Template:Infobox book Dance of the Happy Shades is a book of short stories by Alice Munro, published by Ryerson Press in 1968.<ref name=HappyShadesVintage1998>Preface. Dance of the Happy Shades. Alice Munro. First Vintage contemporaries Edition, August 1998. Template:ISBN Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, Inc. New York.</ref> 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} Vancouver Book Fair: First edition. Retrieved on: 10 December 2013.</ref>

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

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