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.