false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171648690m/111126.jpg 111126 22 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. <p> <I>Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage</I> 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. <I>--Jack Illingworth</I> 2457240 2001 Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories total:1556|5:607|4:607|3:267|2:63|1:12| 1556 6402 2334 217 0 3 false false Thu Nov 01 05:26:45 -0700 2007 Thu Nov 01 05:34:03 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 05 20:51:08 -0800 2007 Wed Jan 30 06:28:22 -0800 2008 Away From Her is actually based on "The Bear Came Over the Mountain"--the last story in this volume...

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