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)