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An edition of The Love of a Good Woman (1998)

The love of a good woman

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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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Publisher
Penguin Canada
Language
English
Pages
286

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Previews available in: Chinese English German French

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Cover of: Hao nü ren de ai qing
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
Cover of: The love of a good woman
The love of a good woman
2007, Penguin Canada
in English
Cover of: Der Traum meiner Mutter
Der Traum meiner Mutter: Erzählungen
2005, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
in German
Cover of: L'Amour d'une honnête femme
L'Amour d'une honnête femme
March 7, 2003, Rivages
Mass Market Paperback in French
Cover of: The love of a good woman
The love of a good woman
2002, Howes
in English - Large print ed.
Cover of: L' amour d'une honnête femme
L' amour d'une honnête femme
2001, Rivages
in French
Cover of: The love of a good woman
The love of a good woman: stories
1998, M&S
in English
Cover of: The Love of a Good Woman
The Love of a Good Woman
1998, Alfred A. Knopf
in English
Cover of: The Love of a Good Woman
The Love of a Good Woman
December 3, 1998, Chatto and Windus
Hardcover in English - Reissue edition
Cover of: The love of a good woman : stories
The love of a good woman : stories
Publisher unknown
in English

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Published in
Toronto
Series
Modern classics

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
C813/.54

The Physical Object

Pagination
286 p. ;
Number of pages
286

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL19524266M
Internet Archive
loveofgoodwoman0000munr
ISBN 13
9780143055006
OCLC/WorldCat
173240068
Library Thing
54306
Goodreads
2033235

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December 10, 2022 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
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October 22, 2008 Created by ImportBot Imported from University of Toronto MARC record