Alice Munro
Subtitle: Hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage, Runaway, Dear life
By: edited by Robert Thacker
Series: Bloomsbury studies in contemporary North American fiction; Bloomsbury studies in contemporary North American fiction
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781474230988; 9781474230995
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Description: "The award of the Nobel Prize in Literature to the Canadian writer Alice Munro in 2013 confirmed her position as a master of the short story form. This book explores Munro's work from a full range of critical perspectives, focussing on three of her most popular and important published collections: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001), Runaway (2004), and her final collection Dear Life (2012). With chapters written by the world's leading critics of Munro's work, the short story form and contemporary Canadian writing, this book explores such themes as love and marriage, sex, fate, gender, and humor in her writings as well as her approaches to narrative form and autobiography. In these three late collections Munro sharply articulates, again and again, the mysteries of being itself."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: " ... focussing on three of her most popular and important recent collections: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001), Runaway (2004), and ... Dear Life (2012)"--Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-246) and index.