Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
CBC Books | Posted: March 2, 2017 5:49 PM | Last Updated: May 14
A collection of short stories full of unexpected twists that can shape the arc of an entire life
In this superb collection from one of our finest 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.
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage provides the deep pleasures and rewards that Alice Munro's large and ever-growing audience has come to expect.
(From Penguin Canada)
Literary legend Alice Munro died on May 13, 2024 at the age of 92. The Canadian writer is revered worldwide as a master of the short story, with 14 acclaimed collections and a Nobel Prize — the 13th woman and second Canadian, after Saul Bellows, to ever receive that honour.
Munro's work has won two Scotiabank Giller Prizes, three Governor General's Literary Awards and the Man Booker International Prize. Her first book, Dance of the Happy Shades, was released in 1968, and she continued to write stories, often contributing to The New Yorker, until retiring in 2013. In books like Lives of Girls and Women, The Love of a Good Woman and Runaway, Munro captured the inner lives of men and women in rural Canada. Her work is inspired by her own upbringing in Wingham, Ont.
From the book
The air seemed to grow thick with loathing. All over a matter that could never be resolved. They went to bed speechless, parted speechless the next morning, and during the day were overtaken by fear — hers that he would never come home, his that when he did she would not be there. Their luck held, however. They came together in the late afternoon pale with contrition, shaking with love, like people who had narrowly escaped an earthquake and had been walking around in naked desolation.
From Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro ©2001. Published by Penguin Random House Canada.