by Alice Munro
The title story in this volume is fantastic. The slow unfolding and peeling back the layers of the story, the host of well-realized and believable characters bumping up against one another, the historical Canadian setting, and the surprise ending: I loved it all, and am not at all surprised that a m...
Alice Munro’s Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage is another fine collection of stories from a master storyteller. While this collection might not have had an impact on me like her two other collections I’ve read so far (Dear Life, Too Much Happiness) it is still a wonderful collecti...
This book is shockingly good. Mostly women, but single, married, with children, without, and with every kind of disposition — it's like she's lived inside each one and can tell you the feelings that skim along the top of a person, but then the yearning, the desire, the hatred, the deep love that swi...
7 out of 10I'm typically not a fan of short stories, as I like my characters fully developed, so that I feel like I know their innermost thoughts and desires. However, Munro seems to somehow be able to give you clear insight, through a special lens, into her characters. Different stories, involvin...
Diana Athill recommended it.
I can't think of any writer whose short stories I like more.
I've been working my way through this over the past month or so. Finally finished it up. There are nine (rather long) short stories.The book title is also the title of the first short story, which was my favorite of all the stories. It just tickled me the way it all turned out in the end! A funny ...
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