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Alice Munro has long been heralded for her penetrating, lyrical prose, and in ??The Bear Came Over the Mountain? ?? the basis for Sarah Polley??s film Away From Her ?? her prodigious talents are once again on display. As she follows Grant, a retired professor whose wife Fiona begins gradually to lose her memory and drift away from him, we slowly see how a lifetime of intimate details can create a marriage, and how mysterious the bonds of love… (més)
Beautifully detailed vignettes. A lot of similar themes and situations come up again, so maybe a good one to dip into rather than read straight off. Very convincing characters and situations, and lots of mid-life regrets (with the occasional bit of redemption). Generally not the most uplifting stories, although their clarity somehow alleviates that.
It struck me while reading them that they are the type of stories that don't get told very often in comics. ( )
Though well written, I didn't really like these short stories. The characters didn't engage me & I was often left with a feeling that the story didn't have any purpose. ( )
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Hateship , friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage : stories was reissued with the title Away from her in 2007. (The collection contains Alice Munro's short story The bear came over the mountain which was later made into the motion picture Away From Her).
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Alice Munro has long been heralded for her penetrating, lyrical prose, and in ??The Bear Came Over the Mountain? ?? the basis for Sarah Polley??s film Away From Her ?? her prodigious talents are once again on display. As she follows Grant, a retired professor whose wife Fiona begins gradually to lose her memory and drift away from him, we slowly see how a lifetime of intimate details can create a marriage, and how mysterious the bonds of love
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