Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories

ISBN-13: 9780375727436 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 336 str.

Alice Munro

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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 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.

Recenzje

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

Spis treści

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage

Floating Bridge

Family Furnishings

Comfort

Nettles

Post and Beam

What Is Remembered

Queenie

The Bear Came Over the Mountain

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Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published thirteen collections of stories as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women, and two volumes of Selected Stories. During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including three of Canada s Governor General s Literary Awards and two of its Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, England s W. H. Smith Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Man Booker International Prize. In 2013 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, Granta, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She lives in Clinton, Ontario, near Lake Huron.