From the publisher
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 (from
The Moons of Jupiter)
Carried Away (from
Open Secrets)
Mischief (from
Who Do You Think You Are?)
The Love of a Good Woman (from
The Love of a Good Woman)
Simon's Luck (from
Who Do You Think You Are?), Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (from
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage)
The Bear Came Over the Mountain (from
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage)
The Albanian Virgin (from
Open Secrets)
Meneseteung (from
Friend of My Youth)
The Children Stay (from
The Love of a Good Woman)
About the author
Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario and attended the University of Western Ontario (now Western University), studying journalism and English. Her first collection of stories was published in 1968 as Dance of the Happy Shades, which garnered much acclaim and won the Governor General's Award for English fiction that year. Three years later, she published her only novel, Lives of Girls and Women. Over the next few decades, she published many more short story collections, including Who Do You Think You Are?; The Moons of Jupiter; Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, from which a story was later adapted into the two-time Academy Award-winning movie, Away from Her; Runaway; and The View from Castle Rock. Her stories appeared regularly in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The Paris Review. In 1978 Munro received her second Governor General's Award for Who Do You Think You Are? and her third in 1986 with The Progress of Love. In 2009 she won the Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work. Her final story collection, Dear Life, came in 2012, and the next year, the same year she retired from writing, she won the Nobel Prize in Literature, hailed as the "master of the contemporary short story." Munro has also been the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the W.H. Smith Award, two Giller Prizes, several Trillium Prizes, the Jubilee Prize, and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book Award, among many others. She lives in Millbrook, Ontario.
