HATESHIP, FRIENDSHIP, COURTSHIP, LOVESHIP, MARRIAGE(PBK)

In these stories lives come into focus through single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface. The pa st, as Alice Munro´s characters discover, is made up not only of what is remembered, but also what isn´t. The past is there, just ou t of the picture, but if memories haven´t been savoured, recalled in the mind and boxed away, it´s as if they have never been - unti l a moment when the pieces of the jigsaw re-form suddenly, sometimes pleasurably but more often painfully.