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  • Published: 2 January 2022
  • ISBN: 9780099287865
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $24.99

The Love of a Good Woman




2021 sees all of Alice Munro's backlist reissued in a new, modern look. These editions will appeal to a broad range of literary readers

In this collection, Alice Munro captures the lives of ordinary women; their passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface.

‘One of the finest short-story writers of our time...absorbing and brilliant’ Observer

Munro explores women who are 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.

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009

  • Published: 2 January 2022
  • ISBN: 9780099287865
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $24.99

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Praise for The Love of a Good Woman

Munro is at the height of her powers...a testimony to a great talent

Guardian

That Munro is a great writer of short stories should, by now, go without saying. She is also one of the two or three best writers of fiction (of any length) now alive. The title story of this collection is one of her masterpieces...a brilliant piece of story-telling, tautly-structured and exquisitely balanced

Sunday Times

A new collection of Alice Munro stories is a literary event that more and more of us look forward to, we are very unlikely to find a richer or rarer treat all year...the eight new stories in The Love of a Good Woman show this miraculous and truly great writer at the height of her powers...a perfect story collection

Scotland on Sunday

Alice Munro's stories...reward each pleasurable effort, as the best fiction always does...a Munro story has the depth and intricacy of a long novel, more than any other living writer in English...she can account for 20 years of a person's life in a single, telling paragraph, or even in a subtly placed phrase...The Love of a Good Woman is a superb, but unsettling, collection

Daily Telegraph

Superb...Long ago, Virginia Woolf described George Eliot as one of the few writers 'for grown-up people.' The same might today, and with equal justice, be said of Alice Munro

New York Times Book Review

One of the finest short-story writers of our time...absorbing and brilliant

Observer

Alice Munro is indisputably a master. Like all great writers, she helps sharpen perception...Her imagination is fearless...A better book of stories can scarcely be imagined

Washington Post Book World

A riveting collection...a lovely book. Munro's stories move through the years with a sneaky grace

San Francisco Chronicle

A triumph...certain to seal her reputation as our contemporary Chekhov

Mirabella

Superlative...She distills a novel's worth of dramatic events into a story of 20 pages

Erik Huber

These astonishing stories remind us, yet again, of the literary miracles Alice Munro continues to perform

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