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Автор Элис Манро
Alice Munro
VINTAGE MUNRO
Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published ten collections of stories as well as a novel,
BOOKS BY ALICE MUNRO
A VINTAGE ORIGINAL, JANUARY 2004
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc. , New York.
Vintage and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
The stories in this collection were originally published as follows:
“The Moons of Jupiter” from
“The Progress of Love” from
“Differently” originally published in
“Carried Away” from
“Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage” originally published in
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Munro, Alice.
[Short stories. Selections]
Vintage Munro / Alice Munro.
—1st Vintage Books ed.p. cm.
Contents: Moons of Jupiter—The progress of love—Differently—Carried away—Hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage.
eISBN: 978-0-307-43000-7
1. Canada—Social life and customs—Fiction. I. Title.
PR9199. 3. M8A6 2004
813′. 54—dc21
2003053825
v3. 1
CONTENTS
THE MOONS OF JUPITER
from
THE PROGRESS OF LOVE
from
DIFFERENTLY
from
CARRIED AWAY
from
HATESHIP, FRIENDSHIP, COURTSHIP, LOVESHIP, MARRIAGE:
from
THE MOONS OF JUPITER
I found my father in the heart wing, on the eighth floor of Toronto General Hospital. He was in a semi-private room. The other bed was empty. He said that his hospital insurance covered only a bed in the ward, and he was worried that he might be charged extra.
