The Love of a Good Woman : Stories
by Alice Munro | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0375703632 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0375703632 Global Overview for this book
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From Publishers Weekly
Again mining the silences and dark discretions of provincial Canadian life, Munro shines in her ninth collection, peopled with characters whose sin is the original one: to have eaten of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The good woman of the title story--a practical nurse who has already sacrificed her happiness to keep a deathbed promise?must choose whether to believe another moribund patient's confession or to ignore it and seize a second chance at the life she has missed. The drama of deathbed revelation is acted out, again, between a dying man and the woman at his bedside in "Cortes Island," when a stroke victim exposes his deepest secret to his part-time caretaker, in what may be the last act of intimacy left to him, and in the process puts his finger on the fault lines in her marriage. In the extraordinary "Before the Change," a young woman confronts her father with the open secret of his life and reveals the hidden facts of hers; she is unprepared, however, for the final irony of his legacy. The powerful closing story, "My Mother's Dream," is about a secret in the making, showing how a young mother almost kills her baby and how that near fatality, revealed at last to the daughter when she is 50, binds mother and daughter. Compressing the arc of a novella, Munro's long, spare stories--there are eight here--span decades and lay bare not only the strata of the solitary life but also the seamless connections and shared guilt that bind together even the loneliest of individuals.
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Again mining the silences and dark discretions of provincial Canadian life, Munro shines in her ninth collection, peopled with characters whose sin is the original one: to have eaten of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The good woman of the title story--a practical nurse who has already sacrificed her happiness to keep a deathbed promise?must choose whether to believe another moribund patient's confession or to ignore it and seize a second chance at the life she has missed. The drama of deathbed revelation is acted out, again, between a dying man and the woman at his bedside in "Cortes Island," when a stroke victim exposes his deepest secret to his part-time caretaker, in what may be the last act of intimacy left to him, and in the process puts his finger on the fault lines in her marriage. In the extraordinary "Before the Change," a young woman confronts her father with the open secret of his life and reveals the hidden facts of hers; she is unprepared, however, for the final irony of his legacy. The powerful closing story, "My Mother's Dream," is about a secret in the making, showing how a young mother almost kills her baby and how that near fatality, revealed at last to the daughter when she is 50, binds mother and daughter. Compressing the arc of a novella, Munro's long, spare stories--there are eight here--span decades and lay bare not only the strata of the solitary life but also the seamless connections and shared guilt that bind together even the loneliest of individuals.
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This is a duplicate copy, so setting it to available.
This is on its way to Ri, who won it in the Anthology and Short Story swap at Book Obsessed. Since I got two copies of this from recent exchange partners/birthday gifters, I'm sharing this one and keeping the other one on Mt. TBR.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
I've had this one for several weeks, but during the excitement and chaos of the birth, this book got placed aside and not found again until now. Sorry MsJo! (And good luck with your upcoming birth!)
Journal Entry 4 by Ri at 2011 BookCrossing Convention in -- Mail or by hand-rings, RABCK, meetings, etc, Virginia USA on Thursday, April 14, 2011
Released 13 yrs ago (4/15/2011 UTC) at 2011 BookCrossing Convention in -- Mail or by hand-rings, RABCK, meetings, etc, Virginia USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
In an effort to pare down the massive TBR pile and be realistic about what I am going to read in the near future, this little book needs to get back on its traveling way! To the lucky finder of this book...
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Journal Entry 5 by 
AnonymousFinder
at -- Parks (regional and national), District of Columbia USA on Sunday, April 17, 2011
AnonymousFinder at -- Parks (regional and national), District of Columbia USA on Sunday, April 17, 2011
Just found this today, in an excellent hiding place.
On a walk home after a lovely day with my boyfriend I wandered over to a large hollow tree stump between Union Station and the Capital. I just moved to DC and miss large trees and forests. I walked up to the stump to see just how big it was, and was about to complain about litter when I noticed it wasn't just a plastic bag - it was a book in a plastic bag! My great day just got better.
It's been a long, long time since I've stumbled across a book crossing book. Will be reading shortly, and then releasing it back into the wild in a hopefully equally as good spot!
Pictures of the find are here: http://holeyoaks.imgur.com/bxloagw
On a walk home after a lovely day with my boyfriend I wandered over to a large hollow tree stump between Union Station and the Capital. I just moved to DC and miss large trees and forests. I walked up to the stump to see just how big it was, and was about to complain about litter when I noticed it wasn't just a plastic bag - it was a book in a plastic bag! My great day just got better.
It's been a long, long time since I've stumbled across a book crossing book. Will be reading shortly, and then releasing it back into the wild in a hopefully equally as good spot!
Pictures of the find are here: http://holeyoaks.imgur.com/bxloagw
Journal Entry 6 by JulietteLow at -- Wild Released Somewhere In The District, District of Columbia USA on Sunday, April 17, 2011
Just found this today, in an excellent hiding place.
On a walk home after a lovely day with my boyfriend I wandered over to a large hollow tree stump between Union Station and the Capital. I just moved to DC and miss large trees and forests. I walked up to the stump to see just how big it was, and was about to complain about litter when I noticed it wasn't just a plastic bag - it was a book in a plastic bag! My great day just got better.
It's been a long, long time since I've stumbled across a book crossing book. Will be reading shortly, and then releasing it back into the wild in a hopefully equally as good spot!
Pictures of the find are here: http://holeyoaks.imgur.com/bxloagw
Was sent on a train ride from DC to Montreal in late April 2011... hopefully found a home!
On a walk home after a lovely day with my boyfriend I wandered over to a large hollow tree stump between Union Station and the Capital. I just moved to DC and miss large trees and forests. I walked up to the stump to see just how big it was, and was about to complain about litter when I noticed it wasn't just a plastic bag - it was a book in a plastic bag! My great day just got better.
It's been a long, long time since I've stumbled across a book crossing book. Will be reading shortly, and then releasing it back into the wild in a hopefully equally as good spot!
Pictures of the find are here: http://holeyoaks.imgur.com/bxloagw
Was sent on a train ride from DC to Montreal in late April 2011... hopefully found a home!
