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      The Love of a Good Woman

      by Alice Munro
      Published
      Oct 1998
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      352
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      In eight "riveting [and] lovely" (San Francisco Chronicle) stories, Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro stunningly explores the strange, often comical desires of the human heart.
       
      "Superb . . . dazzling . . . Munro's feel for her own characters is as pure as Chekhov's."—The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)

      "Munro is indisputably a master. . . . A better book of stories can scarcely be imagined."—The Washington Post Book World

      Mining the silences and dark discretions of provincial life, the eight tales in The Love of a Good Woman lay bare the seamless connections and shared guilt that bind even the loneliest of individuals. A stroke victim expresses his deepest secret to a young bride in what may be the last act of intimacy left in him. A daughter confronts her father with the open secret of his life. And in the riveting title story, a selfless nurse tending a dying patient discovers the social utility of lies.
       
      Sparklingly detailed, unwaveringly courageous, these are stories that extend the limits of fiction.

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