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Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage is, of course, no exception. It is a fairly conservative collection of nine stories, none of which move far beyond Munro's favored settings: the tiny towns and burgeoning cities of southern Ontario and British Columbia. There are glimpses of youth here--in the title story, an epistolary prank by two teenage girls leads to a one-sided cross country elopement and, seemingly, a happy marriage, and in "Nettles," disrupted childhood affection fleetingly returns through a chance meeting--but most of these pieces are stories of aging women and men, confronting the twin travails of death and late love. As is always the case with Munro, their plots are too elegantly elaborate to summarize, and their unsentimental power is a given; baroque praise would be futile. Read these stories--it is the only way to really understand the miracles that Munro so regularly performs. --Jack Illingworth
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: New. WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2013In the her tenth collection (the title story of which is the basis for the new film Hateship Loveship), 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 teenagers 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 wifes nursing-home romance. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage is Munro at her best, tirelessly observant, serenely free of illusion, deeply and gloriously humane. Seller Inventory # DADAX0375727434
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER From Nobel Prizewinning author Alice Munro come nine short stories with the intimacy of a family photo album and the organic feel of real life (The New York Times) In Munros hands, as in Chekhovs, a short story is more than big enough to hold the worldand to astonish us, again and again.Chicago Tribune FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR In the nine breathtaking stories that make up this collection, Alice Munro creates narratives that loop and swerve like memory, conjuring up characters as thorny and contradictory as people we know ourselves. The fate of a strong-minded housekeeper with a frizz of reddish hair, just entering the dangerous country of old-maidhood, is unintentionally (and deliciously) reversed by a teenaged girls practical joke. A college student visiting her aunt for the first time and recognizing the family furniture stumbles on a long-hidden secret and its meaning in her own life. An inveterate philanderer finds the tables turned when he puts his wife into an old-age home. A young cancer patient stunned by good news discovers a perfect bridge to her suddenly regained future. A woman recollecting an afternoons wild lovemaking with a stranger realizes how the memory of that encounter has both changed for her and sustained her through a lifetime. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage is Munro at her besttirelessly observant, serenely free of illusion, deeply and gloriously humane. A superb new collection from a best-loved writer, these nine stories draw readers immediately into that special place known as Munro territory--a place where an unexpected twist of events or a suddenly recaptured memory can illumine the arc of an entire life. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780375727436