Product Details
Category - Fiction / General Fiction
Format - Paperback
Condition - Excellent
Listed - A month ago
Views - 3
Ships From - Washington
Est. Publication Date - Mar 1999
Seller Description
Condition is great. 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 recognizable - 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.
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The Love of a Good Woman: Stories
ISBN: 9780375703638
Publisher Description
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 thin...
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