Alice Munro is universally acknowledged as the finest short fiction writer in English. Bringing together ten incomparable stories from six different collections, No Love Lost confirms her pre-eminent status. Focusing on the many paths of falling in love, each of these stories of ordinary people reveals new truths about people as real – and as extraordinary – as ourselves.
In selecting this unique gathering of stories, Jane Urquhart noted the brilliance of Munro’s fiction, suggesting that Munro's genius guides us “through love’s labyrinth, insisting all the while that we keep our eyes wide open to its complicated foliage, its shadows, its piercing blasts of light.”
Contents:
Bardon Bus
Carried Away
Mischief
The Love of a Good Woman
Simon’s Luck , Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
The Bear Came Over the Mountain
The Albanian Virgin Meneseteung
The Children Stay
Alice Munro is universally acknowledged as the finest short fiction writer in English. Bringing together ten incomparable stories from six different collections, No Love Lost confirms her pre-eminent status. Focusing on the many paths of falling in love, each of these stories of ordinary people reveals new truths about people as real – and as extraordinary – as ourselves.
In selecting this unique gathering of stories, Jane Urquhart noted the brilliance of Munro’s fiction, suggesting that Munro's genius guides us “through love’s labyrinth, insisting all the while that we keep our eyes wide open to its complicated foliage, its shadows, its piercing blasts of light.”
Contents:
Bardon Bus
Carried Away
Mischief
The Love of a Good Woman
Simon’s Luck , Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
The Bear Came Over the Mountain
The Albanian Virgin Meneseteung
The Children Stay