num_pages: 352
description: **Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**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 recognisable - 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.
language: English
title: The Love of a Good Woman
titlecomplete: The Love of a Good Woman
genres: Short Stories, Nobel Prize, 20th Century, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Canadian Literature, Canada, Womens
ratings_count: 8641
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Scotiabank Giller Prize, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award
category: Fiction Book, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Trillium Book Award, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
publisher: None