WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREAlice Munro has a genius for entering the lives of ordinary people and capturing the passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface. In this brilliant new collection she takes mainly the lives of women - unruly,ungovernable,unpredictable,unexpected,funny,sexy and completely recognisable - and brings their hidden desires bubbling to the surface. The love of a good woman is not as pure and virtuous as it seems: as in her title story it can be needy and murderous. Here are women behaving badly,leaving husbands and children,running off with unstuitable lovers,pushing everyday life to the limits,and if they don't behave badly,they think surprising and disturbing thoughts.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099287865Number of pages: 352Weight: 245 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 21 mm
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Munro is at the height of her powers...a testimony to a great talentThat 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 title story of this collection is one of her masterpieces...a brilliant piece of story-telling,tautly-structured and exquisitely balancedA new collection of Alice Munro stories is a literary event that more and more of us look forward to,we are very unlikely to find a richer or rarer treat all year...the eight new stories in The Love of a Good Woman show this miraculous and truly great writer at the height of her powers...a perfect story collectionAlice Munro's stories...reward each pleasurable effort,as the best fiction always does...a Munro story has the depth and intricacy of a long novel,more than any other living writer in English...she can account for 20 years of a person's life in a single,telling paragraph,or even in a subtly placed phrase...The Love of a Good Woman is a superb,but unsettling,collectionOne of the finest short-story writers of our time...absorbing and brilliant
Alice Munro
Canadian author and winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature
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