The Love of a Good Woman

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WINNER OF THE 1998 GILLER PRIZE
WINNER OF THE 1998 TOP FICTION AWARD FROM THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS' CIRCLE
WINNER OF THE 1998 TRILLIUM AWARD
"A new collection of Alice Munro stories is cause for celebration
on a grand scale." Jane Urquhart, The Ottawa Citizen
"Long ago, Woolf described George Eliot as one of the few writers 'for grown-up people.' The same might today, and with equal justice, be said of Alice Munro." Michael Gorra, The New York Times Book Review
"With The Love of a Good Woman, Munro gives readers what they need and^NSxat they want: mystery, insight, recognition, escape and enthrallment, in short, superb fiction."
Macleans
"That Munro is a great writer of short stories should, by now, go without saying. She is also one of the two or three best writers of fiction (of any length) now alive." The Sunday Times (London)
"These astonishing stories remind us, yet again, of the literary miracles Alice Munro continues to perform."
Elle
"Did you ever think that... Tovább

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WINNER OF THE 1998 GILLER PRIZE
WINNER OF THE 1998 TOP FICTION AWARD FROM THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS' CIRCLE
WINNER OF THE 1998 TRILLIUM AWARD
"A new collection of Alice Munro stories is cause for celebration
on a grand scale." Jane Urquhart, The Ottawa Citizen
"Long ago, Woolf described George Eliot as one of the few writers 'for grown-up people.' The same might today, and with equal justice, be said of Alice Munro." Michael Gorra, The New York Times Book Review
"With The Love of a Good Woman, Munro gives readers what they need and^NSxat they want: mystery, insight, recognition, escape and enthrallment, in short, superb fiction."
Macleans
"That Munro is a great writer of short stories should, by now, go without saying. She is also one of the two or three best writers of fiction (of any length) now alive." The Sunday Times (London)
"These astonishing stories remind us, yet again, of the literary miracles Alice Munro continues to perform."
Elle
"Did you ever think that people's lives could be like that and end up like this? Well, they can."
These words let readers know that they have entered Munro country in this magnificent collection from Canada's most critically acclaimed author. In eight new stories, Alice Munro extends and magnifies her great themes—the vagaries of love and 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.
Most of the stories look back to the beginning of the sixties, and provide nothing less than a portrait of a generation. As Michael Gorra points out in The New York Times Book Review, it is "a generation that came to adulthood with one set of rules and then found out it could live with another, a generation of women through whom the great turn of our times first quickened into life."
The rich layering that gives Alice Munro's work so strong a sense of life is particularly apparent in the tide story, in which the death of a local optometrist brings an entire town into focus—from the young boys who find his body, to the man who probably killed him, to the woman who must decide what to do about what she suspects.
Illuminating, moving, profound—these are stories that extend the limits of fiction. Vissza