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Alice Munro

The Love Of A Good Woman

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A collection of eight stories about what people will do for love and the unexpected routes their passion will force them to take.
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374 printed pages
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  • tyahas quoted3 years ago
    A house like this, lived in by one family for so long a time, and neglected for the past several years, would have plenty of bins, drawers, shelves, suitcases, trunks, crawl spaces full of things that it would be up to Enid to sort out, saving and labelling some, restoring some to use, sending others by the boxload to the dump. When she got that chance she wouldn’t balk at it. She would make this house into a place that had no secrets from her and where all order was as she had decreed.
  • tyahas quoted3 years ago
    Through her silence, her collaboration in a silence, what benefits could bloom. For others, and for herself.

    This was what most people knew. A simple thing that it had taken her so long to understand. This was how to keep the world habitable.
  • tyahas quoted3 years ago
    Could a person make up something so detailed and diabolical? The answer is yes. A sick person’s mind, a dying person’s mind, could fill up with all kinds of trash and organize that trash in a most convincing way. Enid’s own mind, when she was asleep in this room, had filled up with the most disgusting inventions, with filth. Lies of that nature could be waiting around in the corners of a person’s mind, hanging like bats in the corners, waiting to take advantage of any kind of darkness. You can never say, “Nobody could make that up. Look how elaborate dreams are, layer over layer in them, so that the part you can remember and put into words is just the bit you can scratch off the top.”

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