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The Love of a Good Woman - Alice Munro
The Love of a Good Woman
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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... show more
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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780375703638 (0375703632)
ASIN: 375703632
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 340
Edition language: English
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bookwookiee
bookwookiee rated it
4.0 The Love of a Good Woman
I stutter-started this collection but I knew I would like it so I had to set it aside until I was ready. That happened to be yesterday and I'm very glad I gave it another go. I don't know what I can say about Munro's writing that hasn't already been said. It's eloquent, deliberate, and intimate. Eac...
Tami
Tami rated it
3.0 Brilliant writing. Let me explain why only three stars.
In the end it is quite simple. I didn't enjoy this book very much. It was an excellent book. With a flowing and elegant prose. With clever and heart-breaking observations, with very many different views on love. But what also flowed through all four stories about love was melancholy. I found...
Austen to Zafón
Austen to Zafón rated it
3.0
I liked it. There were a few stories I didn't care for, but in the main, it was classic Munro and that's a good thing.
I'll think of a damn title later
I'll think of a damn title later rated it
0.0
I had the pleasure of reading "The Children Stay" a few years ago. I would love to read it again and discover more of Alice Munro's treasures.
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