Dance of the Happy Shades Siong Guan Lim To compete on the edge

To compete on the edge is to relentlessly reinvent

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This masterful history encompasses the heart of the Pacific War—the period between mid-1942 and mid-1944—when parallel Allied counteroffensives north and south of the equator washed over Japan's far-flung island empire like a "conquering tide

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Dance of the Happy Shades Siong Guan Lim To compete on the edgeIn the stories that make up Dance of the Happy Shades, the deceptive calm of small town life is brought memorably to the page, revealing the countryside of Southwestern Ontario to be home to as many small sufferings and unanticipated emotions as any place. This is the book that earned Alice Munro a devoted readership and established her as one of Canada's most beloved writers. Winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction, Dance of the Happy