A superb new collection from a best-loved writer, these nine Stories draw readers immediately into that special place known as Munro territory--a place where an unexpected twist of events or a suddenly recaptured memory can illumine the arc of an entire life.
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage is Munro at her best, tirelessly observant, serenely free of illusion, deeply and gloriously humane..
An incorrigible philanderer responds with unexpected grace to his wife\'s nursing-home romance.
A college student visiting her brassy, unconventional aunt stumbles on an astonishing secret and its meaning in her own life.
A tough-minded housekeeper jettisons the habits of a lifetime because of a teenager\'s practical joke.
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE(R) IN LITERATURE 2013 In the her tenth collection (the title story of which is the basis for the new film Hateship Loveship) , Alice Munro achieves new heights, creating narratives that loop and swerve like memory, and conjuring up characters as thorny and contradictory as people we know ourselves.
A superb new collection from a best-loved writer, these nine Stories draw readers immediately into that special place known as Munro territory--a place where an unexpected twist of events or a suddenly recaptured memory can illumine the arc of an entire life
