Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories (Chivers Sound Library) Audio CD – Unabridged, Audiobook Author: Visit Amazon's Alice Munro Page | Language: English | ISBN:
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- Series: Chivers Sound Library
- Audio CD
- Publisher: Chivers Sound Library; Unabridged edition (October 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0792798775
- ISBN-13: 978-0792798774
- Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 7.5 x 1.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 13.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Why would I impulsively urge teenagers to resist [other books]and read Alice Munro? Because, I suspect, they'd be lucky to be set anything that good in post-modern high school.
Munro plunged early into her first marriage and child bearing. There was more to her than the "reproductive daze, swamped by maternal juices", to borrow her sarcasm. She was not drowning, but saving ammunition. She published her first book at 37 and is still there at 70.
Language, sex, love, marriage, fate and death - Munro knows all their rhymes. The title for her 11th book comes from an imagined girls' game, along the lines of he loves me-he loves me not.
The leading situations of the stories appear simple, repetitive even.
Johanna, a stolid home-help, is lured onto the cross-Canada train by faked courtship letters. A widow has to settle affairs after her husband's planned suicide. Suffering cancer, a wife savours a single kiss with a cocky youth. One aspiring writer discovers new slants on sin and death, and another rediscovers a now-married childhood sweetheart.
While one young mother realises the smallness of her married life, another discerns the subtle point of a one-day affair. An older woman puzzles over the fate of Queenie, her lost stepsister.
Routinely, Munro stories take 30-40 pages to get from A to B and back through A again. She is a competitive writer in the best sense, almost preferring death to a failure to engage. She is determined to create some reverberations that the dutiful reader cannot help but absorb.
In Munro, I will accommodate habits that are annoying in lesser writers. I don't mind hearing one more time how she found her vocation. No matter if a single story wants to wander wilfully over three generations.
This excellent collection came out in 2001 but is timeless in its scope. The characters have strange encounters which deepen them: a courtship between a middle-aged, geographically separated couple begins because of letters intercepted, steamed open, and replied to by teenagers; in "Floating Bridge" a woman cancer patient has an encounter with an adolescent boy who understands her better than anyone else; in "Comfort," a long marriage ends with Lou Gherig's Disease, cremation, and the realization of love. In another story unusable love is described after an occurrence on a golf course between playmates grown to adulthood; in "What is Remembered," a bush doctor flies down to a funeral and has a sexual encounter with the widow; the narrator in "Post and Beam" makes a bargain with herself to go on living after encountering her miserable, suicidal cousin; "Queenie" involves a woman left behind by a coldhearted man; the final story makes a match between the spouses of two Alzheimer's patients.
Munro is a born phrase-maker. "Her teeth were crowded to the front of her mouth as if they were ready for an argument." "High heels, thin ankles, girdle so tight her nylons rasped." A smart aleck holds up the wall of a drugstore. "The house was full of callous desertion, of deceit." "...the well-mannered gentleman, his mind on other times..." In a shoe repair shop, "the emery stone on a tool's edge sang high like a mechanical insect and the sewing machine punched the leather in an earnest industrial rhythm. These are not examples of fine writing, they're observations from real life. And how wonderful are her endings! "Floating Bridge" concludes with the cancer patient thinking "What she felt was a lighthearted sort of compassion, almost like laughter.
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