The Love of a Good Woman: Stories - Hardcover

Munro, Alice

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375403957 ISBN 13: 9780375403958

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1998

Synopsis

A new collection of eight stories from the author of Open Secrets and Friend of My Youth explores such themes as the complexities of love, the unexpected implications of passion, and the strange, frequently whimsical desires of the human heart. 50,000 first printing.

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Review:

"Munro is at the height of her powers...a testimony to a great talent" (Guardian)

"That Munro is a great writer of short stories should, by now, go without saying. She is also one of the two or three best writers of fiction (of any length) now alive. The title story of this collection is one of her masterpieces...a brilliant piece of story-telling, tautly-structured and exquisitely balanced" (Sunday Times)

"A new collection of Alice Munro stories is a literary event that more and more of us look forward to, we are very unlikely to find a richer or rarer treat all year...the eight new stories in The Love of a Good Woman show this miraculous and truly great writer at the height of her powers...a perfect story collection" (Scotland on Sunday)

"Alice Munro's stories...reward each pleasurable effort, as the best fiction always does...a Munro story has the depth and intricacy of a long novel, more than any other living writer in English...she can account for 20 years of a person's life in a single, telling paragraph, or even in a subtly placed phrase...The Love of a Good Woman is a superb, but unsettling, collection" (Daily Telegraph)

"One of the finest short-story writers of our time...absorbing and brilliant" (Observer)

Book Description:

**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**

‘She can account for 20 years of a person’s life in a single, telling paragraph, or even in a subtly placed phrase...The Love of a Good Woman is a superb, but unsettling collection’ Scotsman on Sunday

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0375403957
• ISBN 13: 9780375403958
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 339