Do you think it was love

Alice Munro , Nobel Prize in Literature 2013

Do you think it was love (Originally Friend of My Youth , 1990) is the title of the seventh volume of short stories (1990) by Alice Munro . These stories are about characters breaking out of roles that other characters or readers are expected to keep. In some cases, they are also beyond the knowledge and control of the narrator. The short stories in this collection hover between thematic substance and narrative technique.

Karen Nölle-Fischer's translation of the collection was published in German by Klett-Cotta in Stuttgart in 1991. The third edition, published by the Berliner Taschenbuch Verlag in Berlin in 2006, has 379 pages.

Works included

Friend from my youth ( Friend of My Youth )
Five points
Meneseteung
Hold me tight, don't let go of me ( Hold Me Fast, Don't Let Me Pass )
Apples and pears ( oranges and apples )
Pictures of the ice ( Pictures of the Ice )
Goodness and mercy ( Goodness and Mercy )
Oh, what for ... ( Oh, What Avails )
Different ( Differently )
Do you think it was love ( Wigtime )

Individual evidence

↑ Deborah Heller, Getting Loose: Women and Narration in Alice Munro's Friend of my Youth , in: The rest of the story. Critical essays on Alice Munro , edited by Robert Thacker, ECW Press, Toronto 1999, ISBN 1-55022-392-5 , pp. 60-80, p. 60.

[1] Deborah Heller, Getting Loose: Women and Narration in Alice Munro's Friend of my Youth , in: The rest of the story. Critical essays on Alice Munro , edited by Robert Thacker, ECW Press, Toronto 1999, ISBN 1-55022-392-5 , pp. 60-80, p. 60.


Volumes (chronological)	Dance of the blessed spirits (1968, German 2010) • Small prospects (1971, German 1983) • What I've always wanted to tell you (1974, German 2012) • The beggar girl. Stories by Flo and Rose (1978, German 1981) • The moons of Jupiter (1982, German 1986) • The moon over the ice rink (1986, German 1989) • Do you think it was love? (1990, German 1991) • Open Secrets (1994, German 1996) • The Love of a Woman (1998, German 2000) • Heaven and Hell (2001, German 2004) • Tricks (2004, German 2006) • What do you want to know that for? (2006, German 2008) • Too much luck (2009, German 2011) • Liebes Leben (2012, German 2013)
Individual works selection (alphabetical)	Farewell to Maverly • Age of Faith • Amundsen • Runaways • Carried Away • Corrie • Cortes Island • Home • The Eye • The Office • The Bear Climbed Over the Mountain • The Wenlock Ridge • The Albanian Virgin • Differently • The Lives of Girls and women • The Valley of Ottawa • The Peace of Utrecht • The Walker Brothers cowboy • The view from the castle rock • The moons of Jupiter • A woman's love • Dimensions • An outpost in the wilderness • Only the reapers • Tales • Free radicals • Girlfriend from my youth • He hates me, likes me, loves me, wedding • homestead • reach Japan • Jakarta • boys and girls • gravel • passion • love life • some women • Meneseteung • Miles City, Montana • with lake view • night • Oh, What Avails • Oranges and Apples • Pictures of the Ice • Posts and Planks • Queenie • Simon's Luck • Voices • Butterfly Day • The Children's Stay • The Progress of Love • The Turkey Season • Deep Holes • Van dalen • What I always wanted to tell you • What will stay in your memory • White waste • Why do you want to know that? • Train