The Love of a Good Woman : Stories
Munro, Alice
9780375703638
ISBN 13: 9780375703638
Publication Date: 1999
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In perhaps her boldest collection to date, short story master Alice Munro evokes with almost clairvoyant assurance the vagaries of love, the tension and deceit that lie in wait under the polite surfaces of society, and the strange, often comical desires of the human heart. Mining the silences and dark discretions of provincial life, the eight tales in The Love of a Good Woman lay bare the seamless connections and shared guilt that bind even the loneliest of individuals. A stroke victim exposes his deepest secret to a young bride in what may be the last act of intimacy left to him. A daughter confronts her father with the open secret of his life. And in the riveting title story, a selfless nurse tending a dying patient discovers the social utility of lies. Sparklingly detailed, unwaveringly courageous, The Love of a Good Woman confirms Munro's reputation as one of our finest living writers.
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Book Description: Random House USA Inc, United States, 1999. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 210 x 140 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. In eight new stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes--the vagaries of love, the passion that leads down unexpected paths, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the strange, often comical desires of the human heart.Time stretches out in some of the stories: a man and a woman look back forty years to the summer they met--the summer, as it turns out, that the true nature of their lives was revealed. In others time is telescoped: a young girl finds in the course of an evening that the mother she adores, and whose fluttery sexuality she hopes to emulate, will not sustain her--she must count on herself.Some choices are made--in a will, in a decision to leave home--with irrevocable and surprising consequences. At other times disaster is courted or barely skirted: when a mother has a startling dream about her baby; when a woman, driving her grandchildren to visit the lakeside haunts of her youth, starts a game that could have dangerous consequences. The rich layering that gives Alice Munro's work so strong a sense of life is particularly apparent in the title story, in which the death of a local optometrist brings an entire town into focus--from the preadolescent boys who find his body, to the man who probably killed him, to the woman who must decide what to do about what she might know. Large, moving, profound--these are stories that extend the limits of fiction. Bookseller Inventory # AAC9780375703638 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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