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THE LOVE OF A GOOD WOMAN.

THE LOVE OF A GOOD WOMAN.

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THE LOVE OF A GOOD WOMAN.

by Munro, Alice

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ISBN 13
9780375403958
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Toronto:: McClelland & Stewart,, (1998). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A collection of eight short stories by this Nobel prize winning Canadian writer. This collection won Canada's Giller Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award in the United States. 340 pp.

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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 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.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
THE LOVE OF A GOOD WOMAN.
Author
Munro, Alice
Format/Binding
Hardcover first edition -
Book Condition
Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
Jacket Condition
fine
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0375403957
ISBN 13
9780375403958
Publisher
McClelland & Stewart,
Place of Publication
Toronto:
Date Published
(1998)
Keywords
canadian, short stories, Giller Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, nobel laureate
Bookseller catalogs
Canadian writers and history;

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