Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Stated FE. Mylar cover included.
“Just that they had not understood how time would pass and leave them not more but maybe a little less than what they used to be.”
In eight short 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 when 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. 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. Disaster is courted or barely 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. The rich layering that gives Alice Munro’s work so strong a sense of life is particularly apparent in the title story, in which the death of a local optometrist brings an entire town into focus—from the preadolescent boys who find his body, to the man who probably killed him, to the woman who must decide what to do about what she might know. Large, moving, profound—these are stories that extend the limits of fiction.
Read Alikes for The Love of a Good Woman: A Bit on the Side by William Trevor; Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout; Bluebeard’s Egg by Margaret Atwood; Women Talking by Miriam Toews
Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Stated FE. Mylar cover included.
“Just that they had not understood how time would pass and leave them not more but maybe a little less than what they used to be.”
In eight short 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 when 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. 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. Disaster is courted or barely 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. The rich layering that gives Alice Munro’s work so strong a sense of life is particularly apparent in the title story, in which the death of a local optometrist brings an entire town into focus—from the preadolescent boys who find his body, to the man who probably killed him, to the woman who must decide what to do about what she might know. Large, moving, profound—these are stories that extend the limits of fiction.
Read Alikes for The Love of a Good Woman: A Bit on the Side by William Trevor; Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout; Bluebeard’s Egg by Margaret Atwood; Women Talking by Miriam Toews
ISBN 0-375-40395-7
Alice Munro
1998
