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.


Format Häftad Omfång 352 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Knopf Group Utgivningsdatum 1999-10-26 ISBN 9780375703638