The Love of a Good Woman : Stories
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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.
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.
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Arrived today. I love having a volume of short stories handy for those moments when I'm between books or I feel like reading something shorter than a novel. I've read Save the Reaper which was included in a recent volume of O. Henry winners but I am unfamiliar with all of the other stories. Should be a treat.
Thanks for sharing this one, schoolin!
Thanks for sharing this one, schoolin!
I finished this weeks ago but completely forgot to journal it. Fallin' down on the job yet again!
This collection is caught somewhere short of depressing - I can't think of the word to describe how the stories make me feel. They all fit together very nicely - tales of feminine misery and uncertainty in life and love. Maybe morose is the word to describe them. I think Munro's characters are fairly typical of the lives of a lot women except of course their lives are revealed while most women keep their secrets, dreams and desires well hidden.
This collection is caught somewhere short of depressing - I can't think of the word to describe how the stories make me feel. They all fit together very nicely - tales of feminine misery and uncertainty in life and love. Maybe morose is the word to describe them. I think Munro's characters are fairly typical of the lives of a lot women except of course their lives are revealed while most women keep their secrets, dreams and desires well hidden.
Off to Australia to the winner of the 9th Tiara RABCK Sweepstakes winner.
In the mail 17 December 2007.
In the mail 17 December 2007.
Journal Entry 6 by akashafamily from Lithgow, New South Wales Australia on Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Arrived safely today as part of the 9th Tiara Sweepstakes. Thank you very much knitwit. I'm looking forward to reading this book.
