Away from Her

Paperback, 96 pages

English language

Published April 17, 2007 by Vintage.

ISBN:
978-0-307-38669-4
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OCLC Number:
123171084

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4 stars (7 reviews)

Alice Munro has long been heralded for her penetrating, lyrical prose, and in "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" -- the basis for Sarah Polley's film Away From Her -- her prodigious talents are once again on display. As she follows Grant, a retired professor whose wife Fiona begins gradually to lose her memory and drift away from him, we slowly see how a lifetime of intimate details can create a marriage, and how mysterious the bonds of love really are.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Review of 'Hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

If you need a review to tell you Munro is one of the finest short story writers working today then you haven't read her work. This collection is devastating. She has the ability to effortlessly fuse her protagonists with the reader and draw on a well of emotion so deep you would think she has the cheat codes to human consciousness.

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2 stars

Diese Geschichte einer langjährigen Ehe, die letzten Endes durch Demenz zerstört wird, hat mich nicht wirklich gepackt. Vielleicht liegt es daran, dass es mit der wiederholten Untreue des Ehemanns und später der Demenz der Frau einfach zu viel für eine so kurze Geschichte war und sie mir an einigen Stellen deshalb nicht genug Tiefgang war? Ich weiß es nicht, aber ich werde definitiv noch einmal versuchen, etwas von dieser Autorin zu lesen.

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  • Munro, Alice - Prose & Criticism
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - General
  • Short Stories (single author)
  • Fiction / Short Stories (single author)
  • Alzheimer's disease
  • College teachers
  • Marriage

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