Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage

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Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
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First edition
Author Alice Munro
LanguageEnglish
Genre Short story collection
Publisher McClelland & Stewart
Publication date
2001
Publication placeCanada
Pages322 pages
ISBN 0771065256
OCLC 798635005

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage is a book of short stories by Alice Munro, published by McClelland and Stewart in 2001.

Contents

In 2006, the story "The Bear Came over the Mountain" was adapted into a film, Away from Her , directed by Sarah Polley and produced by Atom Egoyan. Following the release of this film, the collection was republished under the title Away from Her. [1]

Hateship, Loveship , a 2014 film adaptation of the title story, stars Kristen Wiig, Guy Pearce, Hailee Steinfeld and Nick Nolte.

Stories

Prior publications

"The Bear Came Over the Mountain" was originally published on its own in The New Yorker on 27 December 1999, where it was republished on 21 October 2013. [2] "Queenie" was originally published on its own in London Review of Books on 30 July 1998. [3]

Reception

The Daily Telegraph reported on reviews from several publications with a rating scale for the novel out of "Love It", "Pretty Good", "Ok", and "Rubbish": Daily Telegraph , Guardian , Times , Independent , Sunday Telegraph , Sunday Times , Independent On Sunday , New Statesman , Spectator , and Literary Review reviews under "Love It" and TLS review under "Pretty Good". [4] According to Book Marks, based on mostly American publications, the book received "rave" reviews based on nine critic reviews, with seven being "rave" and two being "positive". [5]

In his review for the New York Times , William H. Pritchard drew connections between Munro's work in this collection to fellow North American authors, Eudora Welty and Flannery O' Connor, while maintaining his praise of her way of making "certain fictional places -- and a fictional voice -- unmistakably and distinctively her own." In pointing to the influence of O'Connor on the titular story, "Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage," he notes that "if the story were by Flannery O'Connor ... it would have ended in a comedy of the grotesque, with the deluded spinster brought face-to-face with her folly," while "Munro resists the doctrinaire satirist's temptation to humiliate and deprive her seemingly hapless protagonist: Johanna's story is other than the story of pride brought low." [6]

The collection was a National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction Finalist, listed in the New York Times and Time magazine Best Fiction Books, and received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. [7] In 2024, the New York Times ranked the book #23 of the best 100 books of the 21st century. [8]

"The Bear Came Over the Mountain" features as the closing piece in the 2008 short story collection, My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro, edited by novelist Jeffrey Eugenides.

Two of the stories were adapted into films. Based on "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" the 2006 film, Away From Her , was the feature-length directorial debut of fellow Canadian Sarah Polley, who also wrote the screenplay. The 2014 film Hateship, Loveship was based on the titular story. Moving the setting from 1950s rural Ontario to present-day Iowa, the story was adapted by Mark Poirier, directed by Liza Johnson, and marked the feature-length dramatic debut of popular comedic actress Kristen Wiig. [9]

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  3. "Queenie". London Review of Books. 1998-07-30. Retrieved 2023-01-29.
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