The Love of a Good Woman
de Alice Munro
- Usado
- Tapa blanda
- First
- Estado
- Very Good. Sun fading on spine or cover.
- ISBN 10
- 0375703632
- ISBN 13
- 9780375703638
- Librería
-
Barrington, Illinois, United States
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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
- Rocking Chair Books (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 808965
- Título
- The Love of a Good Woman
- Autor
- Alice Munro
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Trade Paperback
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good. Sun fading on spine or cover.
- Edición
- First Vintage Book Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0375703632
- ISBN 13
- 9780375703638
- Editorial
- Vintage
- Lugar de publicación
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Fecha de publicación
- 1999
- Páginas
- 352
- Catálogos del vendedor
- General Fiction;
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- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...