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THE LOVE OF A GOOD WOMAN
de ALICE MUNRO
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0771066856
- ISBN 13
- 9780771066856
- Librería
-
West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Sobre este artículo
The Love of a Good Woman is a collection of short stories by Canadian writer Alice Munro (1931 - ), who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013.
The eight stories of this collection, was which published by McClelland and Stewart in 1998 after originally appearing in Saturday Night and The New Yorker), deal with Munro's typical themes: secrets, love, betrayal, and the stuff of ordinary lives.
The book was awarded the 1998 Giller Prize, and the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction.
This copy is in near-perfect condition. Plain black boards with brilliant gold lettering on the spine. There is what looks like a faint thumb-print on the cover. There are a couple of scratches to the dust jacket. Other than that, it's perfect. The pages are all clean and bright.
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Sinopsis
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. The rich layering that gives Alice Munro's work so strong a sense of life is particularly apparent in the title story, in which the death of a local optometrist brings an entire town into focus--from the preadolescent boys who find his body, to the man who probably killed him, to the woman who must decide what to do about what she might know. Large, moving, profound--these are stories that extend the limits of fiction.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Louise Aird
(CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 595
- Título
- THE LOVE OF A GOOD WOMAN
- Autor
- ALICE MUNRO
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Perfect
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Near Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0771066856
- ISBN 13
- 9780771066856
- Editorial
- McClelland & Stewart
- Lugar de publicación
- Canada
- Fecha de publicación
- 1998
- Páginas
- 340
- Palabras clave
- Giller Prize, Nobel Prize
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Short Story Collections; Canadian Fiction;
Términos de venta
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Sobre el vendedor
Louise Aird
Miembro de Biblio desde 2019
West Vancouver, British Columbia
Sobre Louise Aird
Private individual who has been collecting books for 40 years.
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