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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.
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National Book Critics Circle Award Winner, award:national_book_critics_circle_award=1998, award:national_book_critics_circle_award=fiction, Social life and customs, Fiction, Short Stories, Women, Fiction, romance, general, Fiction, short stories (single author), Canada, fiction, Mujeres, Vida social y costumbres, Ficción, Psychology, New York Times reviewedPlaces
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Hao nü ren de xin yi
2015, Mu ma wen hua shi ye gu fen you xian gong si
in Chinese
- Chu ban
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Der Traum meiner Mutter: Erzählungen
Jun 08, 2014, FISCHER Taschenbuch
hardcover
3596503779 9783596503773
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Hao nü ren de ai qing: The love of a good woman / Alice Munro
2013, Feng huang chu ban chuan mei gu fen you xian gong si, Yi lin chu ban she
in Chinese
- Di 1 ban
7544745694 9787544745697
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The Love of a Good Woman
2009, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
eBook
in English
0307487768 9780307487766
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Die Liebe einer Frau: Drei Erzählungen und ein kurzer Roman
Aug 01, 2008, FISCHER Taschenbuch
hardcover
3596510538 9783596510535
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Der Traum meiner Mutter: Erzählungen
2005, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
in German
3596161630 9783596161638
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The Love of a Good Woman: Stories
June 2004, Sound Library
Audio CD
in English
0792732472 9780792732471
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Die Liebe einer Frau
Aug 25, 2003, Fischer Taschenbuch Vlg., Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH
paperback
3596157080 9783596157082
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L'Amour d'une honnête femme
March 7, 2003, Rivages
Mass Market Paperback
in French
2743610891 9782743610890
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Der Traum meiner Mutter. Erzählungen.
February 1, 2002, Fischer (S.), Frankfurt
Hardcover
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Die Liebe einer Frau. Drei Erzählungen und ein kurzer Roman.
August 1, 2000, Fischer (S.), Frankfurt
Hardcover
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De liefde van een goede vrouw: verhalen
2000, Uitgeverij de Geus, De Geus
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9052267529 9789052267524
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The love of a good woman: stories
1999, Vintage Contemporaries
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The Love of a Good Woman
September 1999, Chivers Audio Books
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in English
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0792723163 9780792723165
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Love of a Good Woman
October 1999, Tandem Library
Unknown Binding
in English
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The love of a good woman: stories
1998, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
in English
- 1st ed.
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The Love of a Good Woman
December 3, 1998, Chatto and Windus
Hardcover
in English
- Reissue edition
0701168307 9780701168308
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"FOR the last couple of decades, there has been a museum in Walley, dedicated to preserving photos and butter churns and horse harnesses and old dentist's chair and a cumbersome apple peeler and such curiosities as the pretty little porcelain-and-glass insulators that were used on telegraph poles."
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