{"product_id":"the-love-of-a-good-woman-stories-9780375703638","title":"The Love of a Good Woman: Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn eight \"riveting [and] lovely\" (\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e) stories, Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro stunningly explores the strange, often comical desires of the human heart.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Superb . . . dazzling . . . Munro's feel for her own characters is as pure as Chekhov's.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e(Editors' Choice)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Munro is indisputably a master. . . . A better book of stories can scarcely be imagined.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMining the silences and dark discretions of provincial life, the eight tales in \u003ci\u003eThe Love of a Good Woman \u003c\/i\u003elay 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSparklingly detailed, unwaveringly courageous, these are stories that extend the limits of fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published thirteen collections of stories as well as a novel, \u003ci\u003eLives of Girls and Women, \u003c\/i\u003eand two volumes of \u003ci\u003eSelected Stories.\u003c\/i\u003e During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including three of Canada's Governor General's Literary Awards and two of its Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, England's W. H. Smith Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Man Booker International Prize. In 2013 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, Granta, \u003c\/i\u003eand other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She lives in Clinton, Ontario, near Lake Huron. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50575901196562,"sku":"9780375703638","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e26dd318-c473-4af4-b419-46501aab494c.jpg?v=1731989411","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-love-of-a-good-woman-stories-9780375703638","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}