Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Alice Munro reaches new heights in her eleventh book (the title story of which is the inspiration for the upcoming film Hateship Loveship), generating storylines that loop and swerve like memory and conjuring up characters as thorny and contradictory as individuals we know.
Because of a teenager's practical joke, a tough-minded cleaner abandons lifelong practices. When a college student pays a visit to her brassy, unorthodox aunt, she discovers an amazing truth and its significance in her own life. An incorrigible philanderer replies to his wife's nursing-home romance with unexpected grace.
Munro is at her most attentive, serenely devoid of delusion, genuinely and wonderfully humanistic in Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage.
