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The Love of a Good Woman
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The Love of a Good Woman (1998) (edit title/settings)

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by Alice Munro (Author) (edit contributors)

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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... read more

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A collection of short stories where Munro returns once again to her familiar locations (rural Ontario and the coast of British Columbia) and to her most enduring question (why we love the people we do), but she pushes her craft even further than she has before, from the complex, four-part... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

A collection of short stories where Munro returns once again to her familiar locations (rural Ontario and the coast of British Columbia) and to her most enduring question (why we love the people we do), but she pushes her craft even further than she has before, from the complex, four-part dance of the title story to the frightening "Save the Reaper" and the masterfully constructed finale, "My Mother's Dream."
Her normal secrets, love, betrayal, and the stuff of ordinary lives, is ever present but as is usual for this master of the short form, the path she takes is anything but ordinary. The stunning title story is a case in point. A narrative in four parts, it begins with the drowning of a small-town optometrist and ripples outward, touching first the boys who find the body, then a spiteful dying woman and her young practical nurse. Whose tale is this, anyway? Not the optometrist's, surely, though his death holds it together. The stories flow from one into the other just like our stages in life, before you know it, you've done what you were meant to do lol!

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FOR the last couple of decades, there has been a museum in Walley, dedicated to preserving photos and butter churns and horse harnesses and old dentist's chair and a cumbersome apple peeler and such curiosities as the pretty little porcelain-and-glass insulators that were used on telegraph poles.

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This is book 5 of 19 in Giller Winner. (authoritative list)

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  1. Alice Munro (Author)

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Original Language: English
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Publication Date: 1998
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Page Count: 340

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