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)

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Bardon Bus
Carried Away
Mischief
The Love of a Good Woman
Simon’s Luck
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
The Bear Came Over the Mountain
The Albanian Virgin
Meneseteung
The Children Stay

Afterword

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Alice Munro’s fame abroad is matched by the admiration she enjoys in Canada, where she has won the Governor General’s Award three times. Awards for her past collections include the W.H. Smith Prize in the U.K.; the National Book Circle Critics Award in the U.S.; the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction; the Rea Award for the Short Story; the Giller Prize, the Trillium Prize and the Libris Award. She lives in Ontario and British Columbia.


From the Hardcover edition.

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