num_pages: 336
description: In these stories lives come into focus through single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface. The past, as Alice Munro's characters discover, is made up not only of what is remembered, but also what isn't. The past is there, just out of the picture, but if memories haven't been savoured, recalled in the mind and boxed away, it's as if they have never been - until a moment when the pieces of the jigsaw re-form suddenly, sometimes pleasurably but more often painfully. Women look back at their young selves, at first marriages made when they were naive and trusting, at husbands and their difficult, demanding little ways.There is in this new collection an underlying heartbreak, a sense of regret in her characters for what might have been, for a fork in the road not taken, a memory suppressed in an act of prudent emotional housekeeping. But at the same time there is hope, there are second chances - here are people who reinvent themselves, seize life by the throat, who have moved on and can dare to conjure up the hidden memories, daring to go beyond what is remembered.
language: English
title: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
titlecomplete: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Canada, Nobel Prize, Womens, Literary Fiction, Romance, Literature, Short Stories, Canadian Literature
ratings_count: 19398
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1546329600000
name: Premio Euskadi de Literatura
category: Traduccion, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best Book in Caribbean and Canada, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
publisher: Vintage Books