The Love of a Good Woman: Stories
Alice Munro$14.41
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In eight "riveting [and] lovely" (San Francisco Chronicle) stories, Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro stunningly explores the strange, often comical desires of the human heart. "Superb . . . dazzling . . . Munro's feel for her own characters is as pure as Chekhov's."--The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)
"Munro is indisputably a master. . . . A better book of stories can scarcely be imagined."--The Washington Post Book World 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 expresses his deepest secret to a young bride in what may be the last act of intimacy left in 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, these are stories that extend the limits of fiction.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 10/26/1999
ISBN: 9780375703638
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.80d
Award: Libris Awards - Winner
Review Citations: New York Times 10/31/1999 pg. 40
Entertainment Weekly 12/10/1999 pg. 102
Publishers Weekly Best Books 01/01/1998 pg. 41
Entertainment Weekly 10/25/2013 pg. 105
"Munro is indisputably a master. . . . A better book of stories can scarcely be imagined."--The Washington Post Book World 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 expresses his deepest secret to a young bride in what may be the last act of intimacy left in 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, these are stories that extend the limits of fiction.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 10/26/1999
ISBN: 9780375703638
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.80d
Award: Libris Awards - Winner
Review Citations: New York Times 10/31/1999 pg. 40
Entertainment Weekly 12/10/1999 pg. 102
Publishers Weekly Best Books 01/01/1998 pg. 41
Entertainment Weekly 10/25/2013 pg. 105