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 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, Marriageis Munro at her best, tirelessly observant, serenely free of illusion, deeply and gloriously humane.

Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published nine previous collections of stories as well as a novel, <i>Live of Girls and Women</i>. During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including three of Canada's Governor General's Literary Awards and its Giller Prize; the Rea Award for Short Fiction; the Lannan Literary Award; the W. H. Smith Award; and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her stories have appeared in <i>The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review</i>, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. Alice Munro and her husband divide their time between Clinton, Ontario, near Lake Huron, and Comox, British Columbia.