Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro audiobook

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories

By Alice Munro
Read by Kymberly Dakin

Blackstone Publishing, Blackstone Publishing

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • 1 Format: Library CD

  • ISBN: 9780792798774

Runtime: 10.00 Hours
Category: Fiction
Audience: Adult
Language: English
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Summary

Summary

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

A London Guardian Pick of Best Books of the 21st Century

Winner of the 2002 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book: Canada and the Caribbean

A 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for Fiction

A 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Fiction

A New York Times bestseller

A 2001 Time Magazine Top 10 Book for Fiction

A New York Times Editor’s Choice

In the her tenth collection, 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.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“Some stories…can alter the way life is lived altogether. For more than thirty years Alice Munro has prolifically crafted tales of [this] quality…[This is] a book full of surprises, one luxuriant with the wisdom that, like all elixirs, love is equal parts water and fire.” —Wall Street Journal
“An X-ray vision approaching Chekhov’s…You don’t realize how gripping and transporting her stories are until you finish one: reentering the real world is like trying to step out of a moving car.” —Newsweek
“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.” —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
“Munro’s short stories hang around in your head for days…Munro has in common with Henry James the uncanny ability to distill in a moment, through the smallest of gestures or glances, a no-turning-back revelation that alters a character’s life and, quite often, chills the reader.” —Philadelphia Enquirer 
“Consistently extraordinary…Even a lesser tale will seduce, manipulate, surprise and stun you. Expect that her scope will be both grandly sweeping and keenly focused on the ticking minutes of ordinary life, that time itself will become organic, nearly tangible.” —San Francisco Chronicle

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Author

Author Bio: Alice Munro

Author Bio: Alice Munro

Alice Munro (1931–2024) was the author of eleven collections of stories and two volumes of selected stories, as well as a novel. She won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as many other awards and prizes, including three of Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Awards, two Giller Prizes, the Man Booker International Prize, the Lannan Literary Award, W. H. Smith Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and more. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review, and other publications. She grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario.

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Available Formats : Library CD
Category: Fiction
Runtime: 10.00
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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