Full name: The Love of a Good Woman: Stories

Author: Alice Munro Year: 1998 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Short Stories, Award winners Culture: Canada Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780099287865 9780375703638 0099287862 0375703632

Alice Munro has a genius for entering the lives of ordinary people and capturing the passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface. In this brilliant new collection she takes mainly the lives of women - 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 unstuitable lovers, pushing everyday life to the limits, and if they don't behave badly, they think surprising and disturbing thoughts. Similar books: Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro Family Furnishings by Alice Munro The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose by Alice Munro Friend of My Youth by Alice Munro A Wilderness Station by Alice Munro Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You by Alice Munro The Moons of Jupiter by Alice Munro Man Descending by Guy Vanderhaeghe Open Secrets by Alice Munro Runaway by Alice Munro The Progress of Love by Alice Munro Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro Dear Life by Alice Munro Selected Stories by Alice Munro Home Truths by Mavis Gallant The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood