Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories

by Alice Munro | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0375413006 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingshawing of San Diego, California USA on 6/13/2016
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Journal Entry 1 by wingshawing from San Diego, California USA on Monday, June 13, 2016
Some kind soul left this in my LFL Kensington east.

Journal Entry 2 by wingshawing at San Diego, California USA on Wednesday, February 1, 2017
7 plus. Never read her books before or even heard of her, however, someone left another one of her books in the book box and I will read it at a future date.

The following review is from Amazon:

Readers know what they are going to get when they pick up an unfamiliar Alice Munro collection, and yet almost every page carries a bounty of unexpected action, feeling, language, and detail. Her stories are always unique, blazing an invigorating originality out of her seemingly commonplace subjects. Each collection develops her oeuvre in increments, subtly expanding her range.
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

Journal Entry 3 by wingshawing at LFL - Talmadge Dr E (4567) Kensington East in San Diego, California USA on Monday, February 27, 2017

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