The Love of a Good Woman

Alice Munro

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Vintage
02 January 2022

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories

2021 sees all of Alice Munro's backlist reissued in a new, modern look. These editions will appeal to a broad range of literary readers

In this collection, Alice Munro captures the lives of ordinary women; their passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface.

'One of the finest short-story writers of our time...absorbing and brilliant' Observer

Munro explores women who are unruly, ungovernable, unpredictable, unexpected, funny, sexy, and completely recognisable - and brings their hidden desires bubbling to the surface. The love of a good woman is not as pure and virtuous as it seems- as in her title story it can be needy and murderous. Here are women behaving badly, leaving husbands and children, running off with unsuitable lovers, pushing everyday life to the limits, and if they don't behave badly, they think surprising and disturbing thoughts.

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009

By: Alice Munro
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 248g
ISBN: 9780099287865
ISBN 10: 0099287862
Pages: 339
Publication Date: 02 January 2022
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Love of a Good Woman

Three books are on my reading list for this summer. Alice Munro's The Love of a Good Woman, for the sheer joy of her insidiousness, and craft, Derek Walcott's What the Twilight Says, essays in the old fashioned sense of the word, that are great analysis and rather poetic at the same time. And Finding the Centre, by V S Naipaul. It's old and I have read it before but it's still so valuable for its encouragement to a writer. Review by SHANI MOOTOO, whose first novel Cereus Blooms at Night is published in paperback this month. (Kirkus UK)