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.

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• Publication Date: September 22, 2009
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• Print Length: 355 Pages
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