| Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage Lib/E: Stories Contributor(s): Munro, Alice (Author), Dakin, Kymberly (Read by) |
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ISBN: 0792798775 ISBN-13: 9780792798774 Publisher: Blackstone Publishing OUR PRICE: $35.96 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: March 2002 Annotation: Here's another collection of short but sure-to-please stories from the incomparable Alice Munro. This is the tenth collection of stories from Canada's matchless chronicler of women's external fates, inner lives, and painful journeys toward and away from self-understanding. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: 813.54 |
| Series: Chivers Sound Library |
| Physical Information: 1.63" H x 7.5" W x 7.46" (0.87 lbs) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A superb new collection from one of our best and best-loved writers. Nine stories draw us immediately into that special place known as Alice Munro territory-a place where an unexpected twist of events or a suddenly recaptured memory can illumine the arc of an entire life. Men and women are subtly revealed. Personal histories, both complex and simple, unfold in rich detail of circumstance and feeling. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage provides the deep pleasures and rewards that Alice Munro's large and ever-growing audience has come to expect. |
Contributor Bio(s): Dakin, Kymberly: - Kymberly Dakin is a professional actress with over twenty years' experience and has been a featured performer both on Broadway and in national tours. Kym has also played roles on The Guiding Light, One Life to Live, and All My Children, and has appeared on PAX-TV's It's a Miracle and on PBS' Math Monsters. Munro, Alice: -Alice Munro, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published eleven collections of stories and two volumes of selected stories, as well as a novel. 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 United States' National Book Critics Circle Award, the Edward MacDowell Medal in literature, and the Man Booker International Prize. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She lives in Clinton, Ontario, near Lake Huron. |