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The Love of a Good Woman (Vintage International)
Alice Munro
Synopsis "The Love of a Good Woman (Vintage International)"
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013In eight new stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes--the 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 met--the 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 her--she must count on herself. Some choices are made--in a will, in a decision to leave home--with 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 Munro's 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 focus--from 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, profound--these are stories that extend the limits of fiction.
Alice Munro creció en Wingham (Ontario) en el seno de una familia de granjeros y estudió en la Universidad de Western Ontario. Es autora de catorce volúmenes de relatos, varias antologías y una novela. Sus cuentos han aparecido en revistas como The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly o The Paris Review y han sido traducidos a trece idiomas.
A lo largo de su dilatada trayectoria ha recibido numerosos galardones, entre los que destacan el Governor General’s Award (en tres ocasiones); el Giller Prize (en dos); el National Book Critics Circle Award; el Rea Award; el Lannan Literary Award; el Premio Ennio Flaiano; el W. H. Smith Literary Award; el prestigioso Man Booker International Prize, que le fue otorgado en 2009 por «la gran contribución de su obra al panorama literario mundial», y el Premio Nobel de Literatura, que recibió en 2013 por «su maestría en el arte del relato».
Lumen ha publicado La vida de las mujeres (1971); Demasiada felicidad (2009); Mi vida querida (2012); la selección de sus mejores relatos, que ella misma compiló bajo el título Todo queda en casa (2014); ¿Quién te crees que eres? (2019); Algo que quería contarte (2021), y Danza de las sombras (2022).
