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.