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THE LOVE OF A GOOD WOMEN

SIGNED by ALICE MUNRO

By ALICE MUNRO

Published by McClelland Stewart Toronto, Ontario, Canada

1998 FIRST CANADIAN EDITION Third Printing

This book is a black HARDCOVER with gold gilt lettering on the spine in near fine condition with 340 pages.

The dust jacket is also in near fine condition.


Signed by the Author on the title page.


Alice Ann Munro is a Canadian author writing in English.

The recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature making her the first Canadian woman and the first Canadian-based author to do so and also the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work, she is also a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction.

The Love of a Good Woman is a collection of short stories by Canadian writer Alice Munro, published by McClelland and Stewart in 1998.

The eight stories of this collection (one of which was originally published in Saturday Night; five others were originally published in The New Yorker) deal with Munro's typical themes: secrets, love, betrayal, and the stuff of ordinary lives.

The book was awarded the 1998 Giller Prize, and was one of the selected books in the 2004 edition of Canada Reads, where it was championed by soprano Measha Brueggergosman. It also won the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction.


CONTENTS

The Love of a Good Woman

Jakarta

Cortes Island

Save the Reaper

The Children Stay

Rich as Stink

Before the Change

My Mother's Dream


FROM THE COVER

"She does not think anyone would get a death sentence for this sort of murder, which was in a way accidental and was surely a crime of passion, but the shadow is there, to sober her when she feels that these pictures of devotion, of a bond that is like love but beyond love, are becoming indecent."

All of these eight wonderful new stories are about what people will do for love, and the unexpected routes their passion will force them to take.

An old landlady in Vancouver who alarms the just-married narrator with her prim advice about married life - and "the peculiar threat" of a china cabinet that must be washed once a month - is shown to have conspired when young in a crime of passion. A young mother, at the mercy of the "radiant explosion" that comes when she thinks of her secret life, abandons her baby and four-year-old to be with her lover in the story "The Children Stay."

A gruff old country doctor in the 1960s is discovered by his daughter to be helping desperate women, his "special patients."

An impetuous young woman meets a visiting Indian student and conceives on a train from Vancouver to Toronto because of "the fact that you couldn't get condoms around the Calgary station, not for love or money." An Ontario farm wife's affair drives her husband to commit a murder; its discovery, years later, will act as a negotiating point for a new, presumably satisfactory, marriage.

The book is clear-eyed about the imperfections of marriage, the clutter of our emotional lives, and the impermanence of love:

"Not that that was the end. For we did make up. But we didn't forgive each other." Even the shared memories of earlier times prove to be a minefield, and many of the stories track the changes that time brings over generations to families, lovers, and even to friends who share old, intimate secrets about "the prostration of love."

As always these stories by Alice Munro are shot through with humour, and are as rich as novels. As always the characters in the stories are easily, sometimes uncomfortably, recognizable as people like us. One quote summarizes the delightful surprises that await the reader: "Did you ever think that people's lives could be like that and end up like this? Well, they can."

ALICE  MUNRO continues to achieve the impossible, every story collection improving on the near-perfection of the last. Her writing each year reaches a wider audience, with magazines such as The New Yorker and Saturday Night clamouring for her stories.

Her fame abroad is matched by the admiration she enjoys in Canada where she has won the Governor General's Award three times, for Dance of the Happy Shades (1968), for Who Do You Think You Are (1978) and for The Progress of Love (1986), which was also selected as one of the best books of the year by The New York Times. In 1997 she received the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, the first Canadian to receive this U.S. award.


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