Name: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
ISBN: 9780375727436

Alice Munro

A collection of short fiction explores the complexities of human relationships and emotions in stories about a housekeeper entering old-maidhood whose life is transformed by a practical joke and a lifelong philanderer who finds the tables turned.

Stories

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage

Stephanie Honour

If you like Margaret Atwood's raw, poignant style, you'll love Alice Munro (and this book).

Melody Izard

The stories are very inconsistent in my opinion. Some, like the first and the last (Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage and The Bear Came over the Mountain) were outstanding. But others, the meaning was just plain murky and the characters were never clearly visible to me.

The last story was actually expanded and became the basis of the movie starring Julie Christie: Away from Her. The story deals with the effects Alzheimer's disease has on both the victim and the family.

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage Stories