Alice Munro

The award of the Nobel Prize for Literature to the Canadian writer Alice Munro in 2013 confirmed her position as a master of the short story form. This book explores Munro's work from a full range of critical perspectives, focusing on three of her most popular published collections: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001), Runaway (2004), and Dear Life (2012). With chapters written by leading critics of Munro's work, the short story form and contemporary Canadian writing, this book explores such themes as sex, love and marriage, gender and humor as well as her approaches to narrative form and autobiography.