In 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 summe...
In 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.
大家帮我看看语法错误（时态什么的...），然后因为这个剧情介绍是挺简化的版本，大家有什么不懂的地方也欢迎来问。这本书我读了七八遍的样子，所以还是可以跟大家讨论一下的 = = 同书中故事的顺序一致。 The four-part title story “The Love of a Good Woman”, which ...
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樱桃小独角
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贺滨
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虫鸣药房
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0 有用 青青子衿 2021-05-15 23:14:54
我竟然忘掉了这本，Alice munro写得最好的小说集之一（虽然munro每本书都可以说写得excellent）
0 有用 Fei 2013-08-06 03:49:25
虽然所有的故事都设置在人烟稀少的加拿大乡村，但一点也不妨碍Alice Munro把人性写得淋漓尽致。
1 有用 Tlön 2021-01-19 05:41:19
最后一篇My Mother’s Dream，少见地让日常生活的刀锋浮出水面（门罗一般不会刻意折磨读者的感官）。如果要编一个“成为母亲”的课纲，可以列在其中。
0 有用 Claire C. W. 2020-10-10 04:23:59
Keep going
0 有用 西瓜 2015-03-08 16:50:21
终于啃完了 好累 太浓缩了
0 有用 荒野小站 2021-06-05 13:52:47
艾丽丝门罗
0 有用 青青子衿 2021-05-15 23:14:54
我竟然忘掉了这本，Alice munro写得最好的小说集之一（虽然munro每本书都可以说写得excellent）
0 有用 Nana 2021-05-05 00:32:30
4.5 The Love of a Good Woman/The Children Stay/Before The Change/Save the Reaper/My Mother's Dream特別狠，簡直是用文字去折磨讀者
1 有用 Tlön 2021-01-19 05:41:19
最后一篇My Mother’s Dream，少见地让日常生活的刀锋浮出水面（门罗一般不会刻意折磨读者的感官）。如果要编一个“成为母亲”的课纲，可以列在其中。
0 有用 Claire C. W. 2020-10-10 04:23:59
Keep going