The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro (1998, HC) 1st Printing Like New

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Like New
A book that has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket (if applicable) is included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins. May have no identifying marks on the inside cover. No wear and tear. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
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Country of Origin
United States
Signed
No
Ex Libris
No
Narrative Type
Fiction
Original Language
English
Inscribed
No
Intended Audience
Adults
Edition
First Edition
Vintage
No
Personalize
No
Type
Short Stories
Literary Movement
Contemporary
Personalized
No
Features
Dust Jacket, 1st Edition, Protective Mylar Cover
ISBN
9780375403958
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375403957
ISBN-13
9780375403958
eBay Product ID (ePID)
990559

Product Key Features

Book Title
Love of a Good Woman : Stories
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), Romance / General
Publication Year
1998
Genre
Fiction
Author
Alice Munro
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
20.1 Oz
Item Length
8.7 in
Item Width
5.9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
98-036721
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
Superb...Long ago, Virginia Woolf described George Eliot as one of the few writers 'for grown-up people.' The same might today, and with equal justice, be said of Alice Munro.--Michael Gorra, New York Times Book Review A writer for the ages--Dan Cryer, Newsday Alice Munro is indisputably a master. Like all great writers, she helps sharpen perception...Her imagination is fearless...A better book of stories can scarcely be imagined.--Greg Varner, Washington Post Book World A riveting collection...a lovely book. Munro's stories move through the years with a sneaky grace.--Georgia Jones-Davis, San Francisco Chronicle A triumph...certain to seal her reputation as our contemporary Chekhov--Carol Shields, Mirabella Superlative...She distills a novel's worth of dramatic events into a story of 20 pages.--Erik Huber, Time OutM These astonishing stories remind us, yet again, of the literary miracles Alice Munro continues to perform.--Francine Prose, Elle
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
813.5/4
Synopsis
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. 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.
LC Classification Number
PR9199.3.M8L68 1998

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