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In the nine breathtaking stories that make up her celebrated tenth collection, Alice Munro achieves new heights, creating narratives that loop and swerve like memory, and conjuring up characters as thorny and contradictory as people we know ourselves. A tough-minded housekeeper jettisons the... read more

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Years ago, before the trains stopped running on so many of the branch lines, a woman with a high, freckled forehead and a frizz of reddish hair came into the railway station and inquired about shipping furniture.

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1. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
2. Floating Bridge
3. Family Furnishings
4. Comfort
5. Nettles
6. Post and Beam
7. What is Remembered
8. Queenie
9. The Bear Came Over the Mountain

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  1. Alice Munro (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Knopf
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2001
ISBN: 0375413006
Page Count: 236

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