num_pages: 336
description: In this 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 trace 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 girlÕs practical joke. A college student, visiting her aunt for the first time, 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, remembering 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. 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
titlecomplete: Hateship Friendship Courtship Loveship Marriage
genres: Romance, Literature, Literary Fiction, Womens, Contemporary, Short Stories, Canadian Literature, Fiction, Nobel Prize, Canada
ratings_count: 19401
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: Penguin Canada