Author: Alice Munro
Translator: Jeong-eun Seo
Publisher: Ppul
437 pages | 210*146mm
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About This Book
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
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