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Alice Munro has a genius for entering the lives of ordinary people and capturing the passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface. In this brilliant new collection she takes mainly the lives of women - unruly, ungovernable, unpredictable, unexpected, funny, sexy and completely recognisable - and brings their hidden desires bubbling to the surface. The love of a good woman is not as pure and virtuous as it seems - as in her title story it can be needy and mur-derous. Here are women hehaving badly, leaving husbands and children, running of with unsuitable lovers, pushing everyday life to the limits - and if they don't behave badly, they think surprising and disturbing thoughts. 'Alice Munro excites the writer in me - there is something new to learn from her every sentence' ANTONIA BYATT 'Alice Munro's stories are miraculous' LUCY HUGHES-HALLETT, SUNDAY TIMES
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"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)
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"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)
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‘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
‘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
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- PublisherChatto & Windus
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0701168307
- ISBN 13 9780701168308
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages352
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