The Love of a Good Woman Stories

This collection, which won the Giller Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, features eight stories by the Nobel Laureate that explore the passions and contradictions lying just beneath the surface of ordinary lives in rural Canada. Alice Munro, a master of the short story form, extends her great themes, including the vagaries of love, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the strange desires of the human heart. The stories focus on the inner lives of women—portrayed as unruly, unpredictable, and entirely recognizable—and bring their hidden desires to the surface. The title story, 'The Love of a Good Woman,' is a chilling narrative in which the death of a local optometrist forces a woman to decide what to do about her knowledge of a potential murder, suggesting that 'the love of a good woman' can be needy and even murderous.

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