The Love of a Good Woman

“Superb...Long ago, Virginia Woolf described George Eliot as one of the few writers ‘for grown-up people.’ The same might today, and with equal justice, be said of Alice Munro.“ —New York Times Book Review

“A riveting collection…a lovely book. Munro’s stories move through the years with a sneaky grace.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“Again mining the silences and dark discretions of provincial Canadian life, Munro shines in her ninth collection, peopled with characters whose sin is the original one: to have eaten of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil…Compressing the arc of a novella, Munro’s long, spare stories…span decades and lay bare not only the strata of the solitary life but also the seamless connections and shared guilt that bind together even the loneliest of individuals.” —Publishers Weekly

“Munro’s stories are always afforded the luxury of space and the weight of detail. Like carefully preserved home movies, they capture moments of the past that are at once intensely recognizable and profoundly revealing. These exquisite stories, some never before published, are highly recommended.” —Library Journal

“To read Munro’s stories is to enter dense woods at the height of summer, so rich are they in spiky detail, shifting patterns of light and shadow, rustlings of unseen beings, and fecund smells, but the path is easily found, and it leads to wondrous sights and surprising disclosures. It is a tribute to Munro’s virtuosity and vitality that a collection of stories as rich, varied, and substantial as this one…each story has a distinct mood and movement as Munro roams across the Canadian and American border over the course of the last few decades, discerning exactly what is most poignant about each place, each time frame, and each heart.” —Booklist