Hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage : stories

In this stunning tenth collection of stories from Canada's matchless chronicler, Alice Munro, lives come into focus through single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface. The past, as Alice Munro's characters discover, is made up not only of what is remembered but also of what isn't. The past is there, just out of the picture, but if memories haven't been savoured, recalled in the mind and boxed away, it's as if they have never been - until a moment when the pieces of the jigsaw re-form suddenly, sometimes pleasurably but more often painfully. Women look back at their young selves, at first marriages made when they were naive and trusting, at husbands and their difficult, demanding little ways. There is in this new collection an underlying heartbreak, a sense of regret in her characters for what might have been, for a fork in the road not taken, a memory suppressed in an act of prudent emotional housekeeping. But at the same time, there is hope, there are second chances."Munro’s nine tales are set mostly in her native Ontario or in western Canada, and realized with steely precise statement and in meticulously deployed specific local detail... We work our way slowly into these multileveled stories, gradually learning how the minutiae of their characters’ past experiences and unlived dreams have shaped [their lives]... Rich, mature, authoritative stories veined with respectful attention to the complexity and singularity of vagrant, cluttered and compromised lives." - Kirkus ReviewsAlice Ann Munro is a Canadian short-story writer who is widely considered one of the world's premier fiction writers. Munro is a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction. Her stories focus on human relationships looked at through the lens of daily life. She has thus been referred to as "the Canadian Chekhov." She is the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature. The award-winning Canadian writer Alice Munro's collection *Hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage* is about the lives, hopes, dreams and ends of women: their marriages, their relationships with those who touch their lives in some momentous way--however brief or long-standing--and the extraordinary effects wrought by the hand of fate. She is not only a genius storyteller, she has a cunning ability to make you believe the short story you've just read was actually a full-length novel. So if you've ever thought twice about buying a book of short stories, then the marvellous Alice Munro will make you think again.. Formats : EPUB Alice Munro has long been heralded for her penetrating, lyrical prose, and in "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" -- the basis for Sarah Polley's film Away From Her -- her prodigious talents are once again on display. As she follows Grant, a retired professor whose wife Fiona begins gradually to lose her memory and drift away from him, we slowly see how a lifetime of intimate details can create a marriage, and how mysterious the bonds of love really are.From the Trade Paperback edition. The title of this short story collection comes from a counting game played by young girls, to determine the outcome of a relationship. However, these nine stories deal with the stuff of adult life - love, sex, success, failure, hope and death. In them, simple or sometimes unbelievable events occur that change entire lives in a moment. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2001 In this collection of Munro's stories, whole lives come into focus through single events or sudden memories that bring the past bubbling up to the surface. And as her characters discover, the past is made up not only of what is remembered, but also what isn't Hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage Floating bridge Family furnishings Comfort Nettles Post and beam What is remembered Queenie The bear came over the mountain. In these stories whole lives come into focus through single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface.