Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories
In the nine breathtaking stories that make up her celebrated tenth collection, Alice Munro achieves new heights, creating narratives that loop and swerve like memory, and conjuring up characters as thorny and contradictory as people we know ourselves.A tough-minded housekeeper jettisons the...
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In the nine breathtaking stories that make up her celebrated tenth collection, Alice Munro achieves new heights, creating narratives that loop and swerve like memory, and conjuring up characters as thorny and contradictory as people we know ourselves.A tough-minded housekeeper jettisons the habits of a lifetime because of a teenager’s practical joke. A college student visiting her brassy, unconventional aunt stumbles on an astonishing secret and its meaning in her own life. An incorrigible philanderer responds with unexpected grace to his wife’s nursing-home romance. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage is Munro at her best, tirelessly observant, serenely free of illusion, deeply and gloriously humane.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780375727436 (0375727434)
ASIN: 375727434
Publish date: October 8th 2002
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 323
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
Short Stories,
Womens,
Canada,
Nobel Prize,
Canadian Literature
The title story in this volume is fantastic. The slow unfolding and peeling back the layers of the story, the host of well-realized and believable characters bumping up against one another, the historical Canadian setting, and the surprise ending: I loved it all, and am not at all surprised that a m...
Alice Munro’s Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage is another fine collection of stories from a master storyteller. While this collection might not have had an impact on me like her two other collections I’ve read so far (Dear Life, Too Much Happiness) it is still a wonderful collecti...
This book is shockingly good. Mostly women, but single, married, with children, without, and with every kind of disposition — it's like she's lived inside each one and can tell you the feelings that skim along the top of a person, but then the yearning, the desire, the hatred, the deep love that swi...
7 out of 10I'm typically not a fan of short stories, as I like my characters fully developed, so that I feel like I know their innermost thoughts and desires. However, Munro seems to somehow be able to give you clear insight, through a special lens, into her characters. Different stories, involvin...
Diana Athill recommended it.
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