The Love of a Good Woman

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The Love of a Good Woman
First edition (McClelland & Stewart)
Author	Alice Munro
Language	English
Published	1999 (McClelland and Stewart)
Publication place	Canada
Media type	Print

The Love of a Good Woman is a collection of short stories by Canadian writer Alice Munro, published by McClelland and Stewart in 1998.

The eight stories of this collection (one of which was originally published in Saturday Night; five others were originally published in The New Yorker) deal with Munro's typical themes: secrets, love, betrayal, and the stuff of ordinary lives.

The book was awarded the 1998 Giller Prize, and was one of the selected books in the 2004 edition of Canada Reads, where it was championed by soprano Measha Brueggergosman. It also won the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction.^[1]

Stories

"The Love of a Good Woman"
"Jakarta"
"Cortes Island"
"Save the Reaper"
"The Children Stay"
"Rich as Stink"
"Before the Change"
"My Mother's Dream"

References

^ (March 10, 1999). "Munro's The Love Of A Good Woman first non-U.S. winner of critics' prize", The Hamilton Spectator, p. F4.

External links

v t e Works by Alice Munro
Collections	Dance of the Happy Shades (1968) Lives of Girls and Women (1971) Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You (1974) Who Do You Think You Are? (1978) The Moons of Jupiter (1982) The Progress of Love (1986) Friend of My Youth (1990) Open Secrets (1994) The Love of a Good Woman (1998) Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001) Runaway (2004) The View from Castle Rock (2006) Too Much Happiness (2009) Dear Life (2012)
Short stories	"Boys and Girls" "How I Met My Husband" "The Moons of Jupiter" "Free Radicals" List of short stories by Alice Munro
Compilations	Selected Stories (1996: 1968-1994) No Love Lost (2003: 1978–1999) Vintage Munro (2004: 1982–2001) Carried Away: A Personal Selection Of Stories (2006: 1978–2004)
Film adaptations	Boys and Girls (1983) Martha, Ruth and Edie (1988, segment "How I Met My Husband") Edge of Madness (2002) Away from Her (2006) Hateship, Loveship (2013) Julieta (2016)

v t e Recipients of the Giller Prize
1990s	M. G. Vassanji, The Book of Secrets (1994) Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance (1995) Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace (1996) Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version (1997) Alice Munro, The Love of a Good Woman (1998) Bonnie Burnard, A Good House (1999)
2000s	Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost / David Adams Richards, Mercy among the Children (2000) Richard B. Wright, Clara Callan (2001) Austin Clarke, The Polished Hoe (2002) M. G. Vassanji, The In-Between World of Vikram Lall (2003) Alice Munro, Runaway (2004) David Bergen, The Time in Between (2005) Vincent Lam, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures (2006) Elizabeth Hay, Late Nights on Air (2007) Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce (2008) Linden MacIntyre, The Bishop's Man (2009)
2010s	Johanna Skibsrud, The Sentimentalists (2010) Esi Edugyan, Half-Blood Blues (2011) Will Ferguson, 419 (2012) Lynn Coady, Hellgoing (2013) Sean Michaels, Us Conductors (2014) André Alexis, Fifteen Dogs (2015) Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing (2016) Michael Redhill, Bellevue Square (2017) Esi Edugyan, Washington Black (2018) Ian Williams, Reproduction (2019)
2020s	Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife (2020) Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise (2021) Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter (2022) Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience (2023) Anne Michaels, Held (2024)

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