Spotlight from my bookshelf.
Something from one of my all-time favourite short story writers, Alice Munro. I first read this book sometime December, 2001.
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
by Alice Munro
(2001, A Douglas Gibson Book, M&S)
A collection of stories by Canadian short story writer Alice Munro. There are nine stories, each one being complex yet satisfying. The characters in these stories range from fourteen-year-old school girls to a retired professor in his seventies... characters are immediately recognizable in our daily lives.
The stories deal with the adult life elements: love, sex, success, failure, hope and death. So what's new? Munro demonstrates perfect pitch when revealing inter-class tensions. Through her unique magic, these stories don't have plots; instead things simply happen, with a convincing inevitability. A truly great read for the ages. Munro just gets better and better!
(c) October 2007. Tel. Leaves from my Musings. All rights reserved.
Something from one of my all-time favourite short story writers, Alice Munro. I first read this book sometime December, 2001.
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
(2001, A Douglas Gibson Book, M&S)
A collection of stories by Canadian short story writer Alice Munro. There are nine stories, each one being complex yet satisfying. The characters in these stories range from fourteen-year-old school girls to a retired professor in his seventies... characters are immediately recognizable in our daily lives.
The stories deal with the adult life elements: love, sex, success, failure, hope and death. So what's new? Munro demonstrates perfect pitch when revealing inter-class tensions. Through her unique magic, these stories don't have plots; instead things simply happen, with a convincing inevitability. A truly great read for the ages. Munro just gets better and better!
(c) October 2007. Tel. Leaves from my Musings. All rights reserved.
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