In the nine breathtaking stories that make up her celebrated tenth collection, Alice Munro achieves new heights, creating narratives that loop and swerve like memory, and conjuring up characters as thorny and contradictory as people we know ourselves.
A tough-minded housekeeper jettisons the habits of a lifetime because of a teenager’s practical joke. A college student visiting her brassy, unconventional aunt stumbles on an astonishing secret and its meaning in her own life. An incorrigible philanderer responds with unexpected grace to his wife’s nursing-home romance. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage is Munro at her best, tirelessly observant, serenely free of illusion, deeply and gloriously humane.
Los Angeles Times - Jane Ciabattari
Canadian writer Alice Munro's masterful 10th collection of stories, Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, proves again that she is a writer to cherish.
Over the years since her first collection, Dance of the Happy Shades, was published in 1968, the sheer spaciousness of Munro's storytelling, her gift for surprising us with the truth about ourselves, has transcended national boundaries and the limits of regionalism. Which is why we have come to embrace her as a major author writing in English on the strength of her short fiction.
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Genre Fiction
- Family Life
- General
- Family Life
- Genre Fiction
Publisher : Vintage
Author : Munro, Alice
Language : English
Edition : Reprint
Published :2002-10-08
Number Of Pages : 336
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 0375727434
ISBN-13 : 9780375727436
Item weight : 0.55 lb
Dimensions : 1 in x 5.2 in x 8 in
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