The Love of a Good Woman
In eight 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…
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June 22, 2011
ALICE MUNRO grew up in Wingham, Ontario and attended the University of Western Ontario (now Western University), studying journalism and English. Her first collection of stories was published in 1968 as Dance of the Happy Shades, which garnered much acclaim and won the Governor General’s Award for English fiction that year. Three years later, she published her only novel, Lives of Girls and Women. Over the next few decades, she published many more short story collections, including Who Do You Think You Are?; The Moons of Jupiter; Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, from which a story was later adapted into the two-time Academy Award–winning movie, Away from Her; Runaway; and The View from Castle Rock. Her stories appeared regularly in…
Dance of the Happy Shades
Alice Munro
Who Do You Think You Are?
Alice Munro
Lives of Girls and Women
Alice Munro
Julieta (Movie Tie-In Edition)
Alice Munro
Family Furnishings
Alice Munro
A Wilderness Station
Alice Munro
Dear Life
Alice Munro
Too Much Happiness
Alice Munro
Friend of My Youth
Alice Munro
The Progress of Love
Alice Munro
Runaway
Alice Munro
The Love of a Good Woman
Alice Munro
Open Secrets
Alice Munro