The Love of a Good Woman (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Alice Munro
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Time of Work: The mid-to-late twentieth century
- Setting: Ontario and British Columbia, Canada
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Girls, Mothers, Parents and children, Love or romance, Marriage, Adultery, Women, Divorce, Canada or Canadians
- Locales: Ontario, Canada, British Columbia, Canada
Readers still dazzled by Alice Munro’s Selected Stories (1996)—an abundant harvest of fictions from her previous eight collections—will find these eight new stories a delightful bonus. The title story, the longest and most elaborate, begins in Wally, Ontario, a familiar Munro location, with three boys finding the body of the town’s optometrist in his car submerged in the river. Although one might expect the plot immediately to focus on the mystery of the drowned man, Munro is in absolutely no hurry to satisfy the reader’s curiosity. She follows the three boys into their...
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