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Too Much Happiness: Stories (Hardcover)

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"Alice Munro....[is] a genius with words no matter what the subject, evoking lives rich with secret horrors, but it's her skill at articulating the nuances of the female experience that makes one gasp with the shock of recognition....[She] is the best living fiction writer in our language. When will she be awarded the Nobel?"

"Munro's latest collection is satisfyingly true to form and demonstrates why she continues to garner laurels....[TOO MUCH HAPPINESS] delivers what she's renowned for: poignancy, flesh and blood characters and a style nothing short of elegant." (starred review)

"All the stories are suffused with this elegiac but unsentimental acceptance of the temporality, change, and transience of fame and reputation as well as love or grief....In Alice Munro's writing...,such commitment to honesty produces exhilaration rather than depression."

"There aren't enough stories in Munro's latest collection. Yes, in actual number (11), they certainly add up to a good-sized collection. But Munro is in her stride--when no one can approach her short-story genius--a condition in which she fully maintains herself in this, her eleventh collection. Awestruck readers will realize about three-quarters of the way through this book that they won't be satiated." (starred review)

"[T]his collection does show the blend of continuity and change that one wants and hopes to find in a late book by a master....Even in handling more familiar subjects...Munro offers something slightly different from her earlier work, especially in her increased use of an almost melodramatic violence....We may know her world by now, as we know the pieces and squares of a chess board, and yet the rook or the queen can still move in disconcerting ways."

Publisher's note

Nine superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers.
A young wife and mother receives release from the unbearable pain of losing her children from a most surprising source. In the aftermath of an unusual, humiliating seduction, a young woman reacts in a clever if less-than-admirable way. Other stories uncover the "deep holes" in a marriage and their consequences, the unsuspected cruelty of children, and how a boy's disfigured face molds his fate. And in the long title story, we accompany Sonia Kovalevsky--a late-nineteenth-century Russian emigre and mathematician--on a winter journey that takes her from the Riviera, where she visits her lover, to Paris, Germany, and the Danish Isles, where she has a fateful meeting with a local doctor, and finally to Sweden, where she teaches at the only university in Europe willing to employ a female mathematician.
With clarity and ease, Alice Munro once again renders complex, difficult events and emotions into stories that shed light on the unpredictable ways in which men and women accommodate and often transcend what happens in their lives. A compelling, provocative--even daring--collection.

Nine new short works by the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Love of a Good Woman include the stories of a grieving mother who is aided by a surprising source, a woman's response to a humiliating seduction and a 19th-century Russian TmigrT's winter journey to the Riviera.

Nine new short works by the National Book Critics Circle-winning author of Love of a Good Woman include the stories of a grieving mother who is aided by a surprising source, a woman's response to a humiliating seduction, and a nineteenth-century Russian TmigrT's winter journey to the Riviera.

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After the publication of Alice Munro's 2006 short-story collection THE VIEW FROM CASTLE ROCK, Munro hinted that it might be her last book. For decades, Munro has been considered one of contemporary literature's great treasures and the greatest living master of the short story form, so her "retirement" would have been a great loss for lovers of fiction. However, to her fan's delight, new Munro stories continued to appear in The New Yorker and in 2009, on the heels of her prestigious Man Booker International Prize, Munro returned with another collection that proves that, even at 78, her insight into the human condition is unparalleled.

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