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Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories
(Hardcover, 2001)
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Author: Alice Munro
Alice Munro's 10th collection includes "Floating Bridge," about a woman with cancer who tires of her...
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0375413006
ISBN-13: 9780375413001
Nov 2001
Publisher: Random House Inc
323 pages
Language: English |
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Synopsis
Alice Munro's 10th collection includes "Floating Bridge," about a woman with cancer who tires of her husband's solicitude; "Nettles," about an unexpected meeting between two former lovers; and "Comfort," about a difficult marriage that has managed to endure. A New York Times "Editor's Choice" for 2001.
| Size | | Length: | 323 pages | | Height: | 8.8 in | | Width: | 6.0 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 17.6 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "ears ago, before the trains stopped running on so many of the branch lines, a woman with a high, freckled forehead and a frizz of reddish hair came into the railway station and inquired about shipping furniture."
Industry Reviews
"In volume after volume of short stories, Alice Munro has created a world that is uniquely her own and yet is familiar and close, reflecting and touching on the realities of the lives of many readers."
Times Literary Supplement - John McGahern (11/09/2001)
"It is tales like "Nettles," "Family Furnishings," and "Post and Beam" that best showcase Ms. Munro's gifts as a storyteller. In them the narratives move seemingly artlessly back and forth in time, from past to present and back into memory, to give the reader the sense of an entire life. These tales have the intimacy of a family photo album and the organic feel of real life, and they give us portraits created not through willful artifice, but through imaginative sympathy and virtuosic craft."
New York Times - Michiko Kakutani (11/20/2001)
"...Munro has made certain fictional places--and a fictional voice--unmistakably and distinctively her own....The [stories] that fill this collection, surely Munro's best yet, are in their wise sadness the product of...attention paid."
New York Times Book Review - William H. Pritchard (11/25/2001)
"...Alice Munro is...one of the world's greatest short-story writers....She has a vision of the world that is like a novelist's, and a typical Alice Munro story contains a novel's breadth and satisfactions, in miniature, fitted out like a ship in a bottle, or a beautiful bonsai tree. Because she tends toward the long story, and writes with a long view of life as well, time is both her subject and her medium, its mysteries and flukes both pondered and employed....The particular and careful ways Munro's themes are laid into her narrative trajectories cause them to sneak up on the reader. They surprise--like the rogue and graceful syntax of a fine but complex wine."
New York Review of Books - Lorrie Moore (01/17/2002)
"Told by anyone else, these stories might seem ordinary--even sentimental. But Munro has no patience with smugness or sweetness and needs no fancy plots or exotic characters to surprise her readers. For all their superficial superficiality, her stories reach down to the deepest level of experience, where no cliches can survive. And she's just getting better....Meticulous in her observation, scrupulous in her sympathy, Munro defies expectations even as she sets them up. In her new book, she shows that she has become one of the world's foremost experts in the soul."
Newsday (Long Island, N.Y.) - Polly Shulman (11/11/2001)
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