(Ebook) Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro ISBN 9780771065255, 0771065256, B004ZZH4HS

(Ebook) Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro ISBN 9780771065255, 0771065256, B004ZZH4HS

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.