The Progress of Love

by MUNRO, ALICE

• ISBN13: 9780375724701
• ISBN10: 0375724702
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780307814562
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-12-12
• Publisher: Vintage
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Summary

Alice Munro, who received the National Book Critics Circle Award for her latest collection of stories,The Love of a Good Woman, is widely acknowledged as a modern master of the short story. In this earlier collection, she demonstrates all of those strengths that have won her so many literary accolades. A divorced woman returns to her childhood home where she confronts the memory of her parents' confounding yet deep bond. The accidental near-drowning of a child exposes the fragility of the trust between children and parents. A young man, remembering a terrifying childhood incident, wrestles with the responsibility he has always felt for his younger brother. In these and other stories Alice Munro proves once again a sensitive and compassionate chronicler of our times. Drawing us into the most intimate corners of ordinary lives, she reveals much about ourselves, our choices, and our experiences of love.

Author Biography

Alice Munro has published nine short story collections and a novel.  She and her husband divide their time between Clinton, Ontario, and Comox, British Columbia.

Table of Contents

The Progress of Love	3	(29)
Lichen	32	(24)
Monsieur les Deux Chapeaux	56	(28)
Miles City, Montana	84	(22)
Fits	106	(26)
The Moon in the Orange Street Skating Rink	132	(30)
Jesse and Meribeth	162	(27)
Eskimo	189	(19)
A Queer Streak	208	(46)
Circle of Prayer	254	(21)
White Dump	275