hateshipfriendshipcourtshiploveshipmarrige Author:Alice Munro the women in alice Munro's storie, like the men in the fiction of John Updike, find themselves perpetually torn between two poles: between domesticity and indenpendenc;between familial roots and freedom;between a yearning for connection and a moresolitary sence of themselves as outsiders. In tracing the choices her herorines make and the fallput... more » of their decidions. Ms. Munro has created tales that limn entire lifetimes in a handful of pages, tales whose emotinal amplitude and keen sense of the mundane muddles of ordinary life have established her over the last three decades as one of the foremost practitioners of the art of the short story.« less