The Progress of Love (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Alice Laidlaw
- First Published: 1986
- Type of Work: Short Stories
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction, Character study
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Family or family life, Self-discovery, Memory, Love or romance, Women’s issues, Happiness, Aging
To Alice Munro, the progress of love is circuitous but usually inevitable. In the title story of this volume, a sophisticated divorcee recalls, through memories often poignant but instructive, her relationship with her parents. Simple, God-fearing people, they had once seemed to her as obsessive and ineffectual; but when she contrasts the strength of their character--their loyalties, their capacity to endure--with her own life of broken fragments, a sense of loss nearly overwhelms her.
In “Lichen,” David returns to his past live, as he has ritualistically done for years, to...
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