The Love of a Good Woman is a collection of short stories about what people will do for love and the often unexpected paths love takes/drives/coaxes them along. Munro understands the imperfection of relationships, the confusion of the emotional life, and the impermanence of love.
Alice Munro is not so much a story teller as a reporter of the lives she observes and sometimes the life she has lived. No other writer of fiction affects me the way she does. Half way through the first paragraph I'm lost inside my own psyche. She wakes emotions and memories I don't even know I possess. I think she is better than psychoanalysis any day. Not sure what trigger she pulls except that her very non-judgmental narration may tell the reader that it is safe to go there.
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This is the first printing of the first edition by McClelland & Stewart. ©1998. It is a fine hard cover with fine dust jacket, not price clipped. There are no marks anywhere in the book. I don't think it has been read; it feels too tight. It is 340 pages.
Munro is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and Saturday Night magazines. Five of these stories were originally published in The New Yorker and one was published in Saturday Night.
