- Published: 1 October 2002
- ISBN: 9780099422747
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 336
- RRP: $24.99
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage

















- Published: 1 October 2002
- ISBN: 9780099422747
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 336
- RRP: $24.99
Another breathtaking demonstration of her mastery of the short story... No one could possibly dispute Munro's greatness; the genius of her seamless, unmatchable prose which nets up the flow of everyday life so miraculously
Daily Mail
Munro gives each of her stories the rich density of a compacted novel...The distinctive vitality of her stories come from their imaginative limberness...triumphantly displays impressive feats of flexibility, always gracefully adapted to life's twists and turns
Sunday Times
Munro is an artist of the domestic interior... She stands at an angle to the mass of her contemporaries set aside both by the beauty of her prose and by the calm intensity of her engagement with her material
Evening Standard
The nine stories in this collection have the kind of spaciousness, the attention to detail, that one expects from lengthier fiction... There is a core of mystery in every Munro story, and that is why re-reading them is such a continuous pleasure
Independent
Each of her tales contains the depth and scope of a novel...these melancholy, autumnal tales of small-town Canadian life demonstrate the gentle power of the short story at its best
New Statesman
In Munro's stories, the mix of pathos and humour is sometimes shocking... These are great stories, tautly written, compassionate and wryly amusing
Marie Claire
She has a touch of genius
Mail on Sunday
Read not more than one of her stories a day, and allow them to work their spell: they are made to last
Observer
One of the two or three best writers of fiction of any length now alive
Sunday Times
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
In this collection of stories of substance and rare insight, relationships are laid bare, in all their banality and their glory
Good Book Guide