The bookstore founded by Munro and her husband Jim has become a landmark in the city
Canadian author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Alice Munro writer spent the 1960s living in Victoria, during which time she and her late husband Jim Monro opened opened Munro’s Books. A copy of Munro's Nobel Winning book is displayed in the store in Victoria on May 14.
The writer spent the 1960s living in Victoria, during which time she and Mr. Munro opened Munro’s Books. The imposing neo-classical former bank with the grand columns and vaulted ceiling may bear her married name today, but it isn’t the same store she worked in. Their original store had a different aesthetic and a more modest address, a few blocks away on Yates Street.
She wrote about the frustration of having people come into the store searching for a specific, long-forgotten title, ignoring the “riches all around them,” and about the sensation of having regular customers become friends whose names she’d never learn.
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