Stories
by Alice Munro
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“Weekend book recommendation: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro. stayed up last night finishing; really good”
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See customer reviews on Amazon →Alice Munro's collection presents compact, layered short stories that open in small domestic scenes and expand through memory, shifting perspective, and quiet reversals. The useful part is the attention to ordinary gestures and household detail, which turn into moral ambiguity and unexpected consequences; these scenes make good models for close character work. The limitation is frequent elliptical endings and recurring structural moves: several pieces close by implication rather than explicit payoff, and similar tonal returns can feel repetitive. Best read slowly, one or two stories at a time.
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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 toughminded housekeeper jettisons the habits of a lifetime because of a...
Difficulty:hard
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books and Fiction.
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David Cancel
American entrepreneur, investor
“Weekend book recommendation: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro. stayed up last night finishing; really good”
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Consider The Republic by Plato. Recommended by 13 sources.
“Plato stages an extended Socratic conversation that moves from concrete questions about justice into broad proposals about an ideal city, the structure of the soul, and what counts as reality and knowledge. Reading alternates brisk question-and-answer snippets with long, cumulative demonstrations that reward careful attention and annotation. Main value: a wealth of thought experiments for testing political and ethical intuitions. Main limitation: repetitive refutations, long policy sketches and dense metaphysical passages can feel abstruse and slow; patience and some philosophical background help.”
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