The Love Of A Good Woman,New

In Eight New Stories, A Master Of The Form Extends And Magnifies Her Great Themesthe 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 Metthe 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 Hershe Must Count On Herself.Some Choices Are Madein A Will, In A Decision To Leave Homewith 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 Munros 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 Focusfrom 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, Profoundthese Are Stories That Extend The Limits Of Fiction.