[TABLE="class: tborder, width: 100%, align: center"] [TD="class: alt2, width: 175, bgcolor: #F4F2ED"]Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link Viện sĩ Tham gia ngày: Jun 2008 Bài gởi: 828 Xin cảm ơn: 9 Được cảm ơn 16,466 lần trong 820 bài [/TD] [TD="class: alt1, bgcolor: #F8F7F4"] Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage - Alice Munro [HR][/HR]Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001) A collection of stories by Alice Munro The award-winning Canadian writer Alice Munro's collection Hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage is about the lives, hopes, dreams and ends of women: their marriages, their relationships with those who touch their lives in some momentous way--however brief or long-standing--and the extraordinary effects wrought by the hand of fate. She is not only a genius storyteller, she has a cunning ability to make you believe the short story you've just read was actually a full-length novel. So if you've ever thought twice about buying a book of short stories, then the marvellous Alice Munro will make you think again.. Munro's world is one of post-war Canada, when women are beginning to experience a constrained kind of freedom. In "What is Remembered", a chance meeting at a funeral has a profound, yet stabilising effect on Meriel, a young wife and mother. "Young husbands", writes Munro, "were stern in those days". Between learning how to kowtow to bosses and manage wives, there was so much else to learn: mortgages, lawns and politics for a start. The wives, meantime, were afforded the opportunity of "a second kind of adolescence"--but only in the confines of the family home, while the men were absent, and only after wifely jobs were accounted for. In the book's title story, a capable, spinsterly housekeeper finds love in the most unexpected place, in the most unexpected way. However the opportunity presents itself, it is what you choose to make of it that really matters, the author seems to be saying. Johanna could be deeply disappointed with her "opportunity" but, in her straightforward way, amends a few details and makes the most of it. Alice Munro's stories are retrospective; tales of lives lived, for better or worse. If you want something, take it, quickly. You only get one life, and this is it. -- Carey Green [/TD] [/TABLE]
The Love of a Good Woman - Alice Munro [TABLE="class: tborder, width: 100%, align: center"] [TD="class: alt2, width: 175, bgcolor: #F4F2ED"]Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link Viện sĩ Tham gia ngày: Jun 2008 Bài gởi: 828 Xin cảm ơn: 9 Được cảm ơn 16,466 lần trong 820 bài [/TD] [TD="class: alt1, bgcolor: #F8F7F4"] The Love of a Good Woman - Alice Munro [HR][/HR]The Love of a Good Woman (1998) A collection of stories by Alice Munro A collection of eight stories about what people will do for love and the unexpected routes their passion will force them to take. [/TD] [/TABLE]
The View from Castle Rock - Alice Munro [TABLE="class: tborder, width: 100%, align: center"] [TD="class: alt2, width: 175, bgcolor: #F4F2ED"]Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link Viện sĩ Tham gia ngày: Jun 2008 Bài gởi: 828 Xin cảm ơn: 9 Được cảm ơn 16,466 lần trong 820 bài [/TD] [TD="class: alt1, bgcolor: #F8F7F4"] The View from Castle Rock - Alice Munro [HR][/HR]The View from Castle Rock (2006) A collection of stories by Alice Munro A powerful new collection from one of our most beloved, admired, and honored writers. In stories that are more personal than any that she's written before, Alice Munro pieces her family's history into gloriously imagined fiction. A young boy is taken to Edinburgh's Castle Rock, where his father assures him that on a clear day he can see America, and he catches a glimpse of his father's dream. In stories that follow, as the dream becomes a reality, two sisters-in-law experience very different kinds of passion on the long voyage to the New World; a baby is lost and magically reappears on a journey from an Illinois homestead to the Canadian border. Other stories take place in more familiar Munro territory, the towns and countryside around Lake Huron, where the past shows through the present like the traces of a glacier on the landscape and strong emotions stir just beneath the surface of ordinary comings and goings. First love flowers under the apple tree, while a stronger emotion presents itself in the barn. A girl hired as summer help, and uneasy about her “place” in the fancy resort world she's come to, is transformed by her employer's perceptive parting gift. A father whose early expectations of success at fox farming have been dashed finds strange comfort in a routine night job at an iron foundry. A clever girl escapes to college and marriage. Evocative, gripping, sexy, unexpected—these stories reflect a depth and richness of experience. The View from Castle Rock is a brilliant achievement from one of the finest writers of our time. [/TD] [/TABLE]
