num_pages: 323
description: A superb new collection from one of our best and best-loved writers. Nine stories draw us immediately into that special place known as Alice Munro territory–a place where an unexpected twist of events or a suddenly recaptured memory can illumine the arc of an entire life.The fate of a strong-minded housekeeper with a “frizz of reddish hair,” just entering the dangerous country of old-maidhood, is unintentionally (and deliciously) reversed by a teenaged girl’s practical joke. A college student visiting her aunt for the first time and recognizing the family furniture stumbles on a long-hidden secret and its meaning in her own life. An inveterate philanderer finds the tables turned when he puts his wife into an old-age home. A young cancer patient stunned by good news discovers a perfect bridge to her suddenly regained future. A woman recollecting an afternoon’s wild lovemaking with a stranger realizes how the memory of that encounter has both changed for her and sustained her through a lifetime.Men and women are subtly revealed. Personal histories, both complex and simple, unfold in rich detail of circumstance and feeling. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage provides the deep pleasures and rewards that Alice Munro’s large and ever- growing audience has come to expect.
language: English
title: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories
titlecomplete: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Canadian Literature, Canada, Womens, Literature, Romance, Nobel Prize, Contemporary, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 19402
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1546329600000
name: Premio Euskadi de Literatura
category: Traduccion, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best Book in Caribbean and Canada, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
publisher: Alfred A. Knopf