JONATHAN FRANZEN - 'Runaway': Alice's Wonderland - Munro's work is all about storytelling pleasure - As long as you're reading Munro, you're failing to multitask by absorbing civics lessons or historical data - She doesn't give her books grand titles like ''Canadian Pastoral,'' ''Canadian Psycho,'' ''Purple Canada,'' ''In Canada'' or ''The Plot Against Canada.''

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