Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: - Stories

“Surely Munro’s best yet.” – The New York Times Book Review “She is the living writer most likely to be read in a hundred years.” –Mona Simpson, The Atlantic Monthly “One of the foremost practitioners of the art of the short story. . . . These tales have the intimacy of a family photo album and the organic feel of real life.” – The New York Times “A writer to cherish. . . . The sheer spaciousness of Munro’s storytelling, her gift for surprising us with the truth about ourselves, has transcended national boundaries.” – Los Angeles Times Book Review “In Munro’s hands, as in Chekhov’s, a short story is more than big enough to hold the world–and to astonish us, again and again.” —Chicago Tribune Praise from fellow writers: “Her work felt revolutionary when I came to it, and it still does.” —Jhumpa Lahiri “She is one of the handful of writers, some living, most dead, whom I have in mind when I say that fiction is my religion.” —Jonthan Franzen “The authority she brings to the page is just lovely.” —Elizabeth Strout “She’s the most savage writer I’ve ever read, also the most tender, the most honest, the most perceptive.” —Jeffery Eugenides “Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can.”—Julian Barnes “She is a short-story writer who…reimagined what a story can do.” —Loorie Moore “There’s probably no one alive who’s better at the craft of the short story.” —Jim Shepard “A true master of the form.” —Salman Rushdie “A wonderful writer.” —Joyce Carol Oates Informationen zum Autor Alice Munro is the author of thirteen collections of stories—including Dear Life, Runaway , and Too Much Happiness —as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women . Among the many awards and prizes she received are three Governor General’s Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes in Canada; the Rea Award; the Lannan Literary Award; the National Book Critics Circle Award; and the International Booker Prize. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker , The Atlantic , The Paris Review , and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Alice Munro died in 2024. Klappentext WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® 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 tough-minded housekeeper jettisons the habits of a lifetime because of a teenager's practical joke. A college student visiting her brassy, unconventional aunt stumbles on an astonishing secret and its meaning in her own life. An incorrigible philanderer responds with unexpected grace to his wife's nursing-home romance. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage is Munro at her best, tirelessly observant, serenely free of illusion, deeply and gloriously humane. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage Years ago, before the trains stopped running on so many of the branch lines, a woman with a high, freckled forehead and a frizz of reddish hair came into the railway station and inquired about shipping furniture. The station agent often tried a little teasing with women, especially the plain ones who seemed to appreciate it. "Furniture?" he said, as if nobody had ever had such an idea before. "Well. Now. What kind of furniture are we talking about?" A dining-room table and six chairs. A full bedroom suite, a sofa, a coffee table, end tables, a floor lamp. Also a china cabinet and a buffet. "Whoa there. You mean a houseful." "It shouldn't count as that much," she said. "The...

List of contents

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage

Floating Bridge

Family Furnishings

Comfort

Nettles

Post and Beam

What Is Remembered

Queenie

The Bear Came Over the Mountain

Report

Surely Munro s best yet. The New York Times Book Review

She is the living writer most likely to be read in a hundred years. Mona Simpson, The Atlantic Monthly

One of the foremost practitioners of the art of the short story. . . . These tales have the intimacy of a family photo album and the organic feel of real life. The New York Times

A writer to cherish. . . . The sheer spaciousness of Munro s storytelling, her gift for surprising us with the truth about ourselves, has transcended national boundaries. Los Angeles Times Book Review

In Munro s hands, as in Chekhov s, a short story is more than big enough to hold the world and to astonish us, again and again. Chicago Tribune

Praise from fellow writers:

Her work felt revolutionary when I came to it, and it still does. Jhumpa Lahiri

She is one of the handful of writers, some living, most dead, whom I have in mind when I say that fiction is my religion. Jonthan Franzen

The authority she brings to the page is just lovely.   Elizabeth Strout

She s the most savage writer I ve ever read, also the most tender, the most honest, the most perceptive.   Jeffery Eugenides

Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can. Julian Barnes

She is a short-story writer who reimagined what a story can do.   Loorie Moore

There s probably no one alive who s better at the craft of the short story.   Jim Shepard

A true master of the form.   Salman Rushdie

A wonderful writer.   Joyce Carol Oates

Product details

• Authors: Alice Munro
• Publisher: Vintage USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 08.10.2002
• EAN: 9780375727436
• ISBN: 978-0-375-72743-6
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 205 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Vintage Contemporaries; Vintage Contemporaries; Vintage International; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature