The love of a good woman / stories by Alice Munro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Munro, Alice, 1931-2024

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canada--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.

Canada.

Manners and customs.

Women--Canada--Fiction.

Women.

Genre:

Fiction.

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

339 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1998.

Summary:

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 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 a decision to leave home - with irrevocable and surprising consequences. At other times disaster is courted or barely skirted; when a mother has a startling dream about her baby; when a woman, driving her grandchildren to visit the lakeside haunts of her youth, starts a game that could have dangerous consequences.

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.

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy is Sixth Printing, January 1999.

ISBN:

0375403957

0375703632

OCLC:

39556290