The love of a good woman
Subtitle: stories
By: by Alice Munro.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Knopf; Distributed by Random House
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
Subjects: Women -- Canada -- Fiction; Canada -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: The love of a good woman; title: Jakarta; title: Cortes Island; title: Save the reaper; title: The children stay; title: Rich as stink; title: Before the change; title: My mother's dream.