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Title: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage : Stories by Alice Munro ISBN: 0-375-72743-4 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 08 October, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.06 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Really enjoyed it
Comment: Alice Munro's short stories don't always impress me -- some seem too sedate, others too offbeat. However, this collection was very enjoyable. The lead story, which shares its title with the book, is wonderfully ironic and very well written, with characters that are drawn quickly and even sketchily, and yet they have such depth that if I were a critic, I would consider this Munro's masterpiece. All the stories in this collection refer to acts of love, but they are realistic. A woman has an affair that lasts a few hours but in her memories is maintained for a lifetime. Old childhood friends meet again as adults with the outcome far more and far less than the woman expected (the man, as usual, expected nothing). Women learn about themselves not just through romantic relationships but through the loving or non-loving family relationships they find. These are good stories, moving at the calm pace of reminiscences. Very well done. I was sorry when I finished the last story. I wanted more.
Rating: 5
Summary: Nine stories, most displaying the depth of a novel
Comment: Alice Munro is the eminent Canadian award winning author of international fame. It is remarkable to find that Alice Munro is the only living author with a full-time professional career spent in writing short fiction. Her standards and her talent are quite breathtaking.
She pours into each of her short stories the feeling of various Canadian regions and their characters, while offering appurtenance to the lives of her readers around the world. This is definitely not provincial writing, but worldly.
In addition, she delivers the depth of a novel into many of her short works. Her new collection contains seven stories of roughly the same length,each around thirty pages,with two novellas of around 50 pages each serving as bookends. They are a treat.
First off, Marriage, takes place in a small town when trains still joined communities and people wrote letters. It starts with a woman, Johanna, who wants to ship furniture to Saskatchewan. For why? Everyone is curious. Half the town knows the stationmaster personally, and guesswork pours over coffee cups. By end of the story we learn Johanna could have benefited from the advice a Toronto judge recently gave a neophyte lawyer, Don't ever assume anything.
Floating Bridge is next. An Ontario woman named Jinny examines the reasons for her petty anger, out of which she comes to terms with her cancer. In a story called Comfort, religious-right creationists edge their way into a school, and begin to make life uncomfortable for a science instructor teaching evolution.
What is Remembered, set in Vancouver and Victoria concerns the chance meeting between a bush pilot-doctor and a woman who has just attended the funeral of her husband's friend who may have committed suicide. Here, while telling a slight story, Munro's writing brilliantly captures the unease between the two.
Most of the stories appear to occur in the immediate past, when rental cars had no radios, and many people smoked and spoke of ciggie-boos. Yet, they deal with current high-profile issues such as euthanasia, and coping with old age deterioration.
Five of these first appeared in the New Yorker. All are of
consistent high quality.
Rating: 4
Summary: Pleased
Comment: Pure Alice Monroe. Some in my Book Club aren't big fans but I think she is great. Always in tune, perseptive and warm in her observations. Gives the ordinary meaning and colour.
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Title: The Love of a Good Woman : Stories by Alice Munro, Alice Munro ISBN: 0375703632 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 26 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Lives of Girls and Women : A Novel by Alice Munro ISBN: 0375707492 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 13 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Open Secrets : Stories by Alice Munro ISBN: 0679755624 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 07 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Selected Stories by Alice Munro ISBN: 067976674X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 11 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Dance of the Happy Shades : And Other Stories by Alice Munro ISBN: 067978151X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 11 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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