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Title: The Love of a Good Woman : Stories by Alice Munro, Alice Munro ISBN: 0-375-70363-2 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 26 October, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.29 (17 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Short stories that read like a novel
Comment: I have a hard time reading short stories sometimes, but these were excellent. The first one, which titles the book, is almost a novella, very well crafted. With a murder at the center of the story, you read about how this death has affected different characters, and their take on it. My second favorite story is My Mother's Dream, a very vivid account of family dynamics at a time of loss and happiness.
Each one of these stories left me satisfied, with a sense of completion, and that is something i often miss when reading short stories. I highly recommend this excellent work by Alice Munro.
Rating: 5
Summary: Authenticity and Freedom
Comment: We all know that there are quite a lot of people who believe that Alice Munro is one of the greatest short story writers alive, and I could not agree with them more. But let me say what I particularly like about Alice Munro, what distinguishes her from other great writers.
First of all, there is a unique impression of authenticity. There are certain conventions in fiction about what is regarded as important or interesting; Alice Munro ignores them. She knows that tiny incidents can be the defining ones. She knows that spending a weekend with one's own daughter can be an unbearable challange which almost drives you mad. These stories do not gloss over the mundane aspects of life we have to struggle with most.
Second, Alice Munro's stories believe in human dignity and choice. Hers is a moral universe. It's not just the title story which shows us a person making a choice. We tend to just let things happen to us and pretend we cannot do anything about them; these stories show that sometimes we can (but they do not deny that very often we cannot). There is also a great story, "Jakarta", which implies that such choices are not valid forever; it's not enough to decide against betraying your husband today. The decision may feel momentous, but if you decide otherwise tomorrow it doesn't matter all that much. The problem is, however, and the story shows that too, that when you take those decisions you are very often incapable of feeling their impact.
Read these stories! This is a book for grown-ups. It will help you understand the world.
Rating: 5
Summary: masterful
Comment: Get this collection simply for The Children Stay, one of the
most effective evocations of ache and regret ever set down on paper (and then, because she is Alice Munro, she quickly shows us how ultimately meaningless regret can become in an individual life, given time). In her stories, there are no right or wrong choices, there is no fate, and the stories often extend long past the consequences of her characters' actions, for better or worse, often, whatever they've done, however extreme, they are not punished nor rewarded. They are not saved. The moments of recognition or realization are sterling, perhaps, but not permanent in her characters' lives. They go on.
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Title: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage : Stories by Alice Munro ISBN: 0375727434 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 08 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Open Secrets : Stories by Alice Munro ISBN: 0679755624 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 07 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Lives of Girls and Women : A Novel by Alice Munro ISBN: 0375707492 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 13 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Selected Stories by Alice Munro ISBN: 067976674X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 11 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Moons of Jupiter by Alice Munro ISBN: 0679732705 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 07 May, 1991 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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