The Love of a Good Woman
About this book
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 things, and the strange, often comical desires of the human heart. Time stretches out in some of the stories: a man and a woman look back forty years to the summer they met - the summer, as it turns out, that the true nature of their lives was revealed. In others time is telescoped: a young girl finds in the course of an evening that the mother she adores, and whose fluttery sexuality she hopes to emulate, will not sustain her - she must count on herself. Some choices are made - in a will, in a decision to leave home - with irrevocable and surprising consequences. At other times disaster is courted or barely skirted; when a mother has a startling dream about her baby; when a woman, driving her grandchildren to visit the lakeside haunts of her youth, starts a game that could have dangerous consequences.
Reader Profile
4.0/5 · 9843 readers · 360 pages · ≈ 6 h 40 m · Moderate
How long does it take to read The Love of a Good Woman?
About ≈ 6 h 40 m — 360 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is The Love of a Good Woman?
360 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is The Love of a Good Woman?
It sits on the Psychology, Short Stories, Fiction shelves.
Is The Love of a Good Woman in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Where does The Love of a Good Woman take place?
It is set in Canada during 20th century.
Who wrote The Love of a Good Woman?
Alice Munro.