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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 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
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Der Traum meiner Mutter: Erzählungen
2005, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
in German
3596161630 9783596161638
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L'Amour d'une honnête femme
March 7, 2003, Rivages
Mass Market Paperback
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2743610891 9782743610890
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The love of a good woman: stories
1999, Vintage Contemporaries
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The Love of a Good Woman
December 3, 1998, Chatto and Windus
Hardcover
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