Too Much Happiness: Stories Feature
- ISBN13: 9780307269768
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Too Much Happiness: Stories Overview
Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers—the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize.
In the first story a young wife and mother receives release from the unbearable pain of losing her three children from a most surprising source. In another, a young woman, in the aftermath of an unusual and humiliating seduction, reacts in a clever if less-than-admirable fashion. Other stories uncover the “deep-holes” in a marriage, the unsuspected cruelty of children, and how a boy’s disfigured face provides both the good things in his life and the bad. And in the long title story, we accompany Sophia Kovalevsky—a late-nineteenth-century Russian émigré and mathematician—on a winter journey that takes her from the Riviera, where she visits her lover, to Paris, Germany, and, Denmark, 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.
Too Much Happiness is a compelling, provocative—even daring—collection.
Too Much Happiness: Stories Specifications
Amazon Best Books of the Month, November 2009: "She hated to hear the word 'escape' used about fiction. She might have argued, not just playfully, that it was real life that was the escape. But this was too important to argue about." Taken from a story called "Free Radicals," this line may be the best way to think about the lives unfolding in Alice Munro's Too Much Happiness. Real life assaults her central characters rather brutally--in the forms of murder and madness, death, divorce, and all manner of deceptions--but they respond with a poise and clarity of thought that's disarming--sometimes, even nonchalant--when you consider their circumstances. Her women move through life, wearing their scars but not so much wearied by them, profoundly intelligent, but also inordinately tender and thoughtful. There's more fact than fiction to these stories, rich in quiet, precise details that make for a beautiful, bewildering read. --Anne Bartholomew
Customer Reviews
I think that Alice Munro is one of the most talented writers of life stories. For those who have never read a story Munro, do not be fooled by the friendly, harmless-looking old lady with the back cover flap pictures. Munro offers enough interesting surface details to the reader in the lives of their characters to draw - until it is definitively involved in the dark underworld of this data. Credible bizarre and macabre events in the history of a person's life, written in prose more delicate.
All that said, I do not like the stories in this collection. Sun is committed for the track "title" too experimental, it is clean and well built, like the others. "It could be based Wenlock Edge", a bit '. Although it is involved in the complicated and interesting to play with and Literotica, you feel suddenly as if Munro bored or lazy and ended the story as soon as he could, and though his goal is the same old story elegant, sober, some which briefly abovefeels as if he had abandoned. Besides these two, but life's collection of Munro usual high standard. In my opinion the two best stories are "fiction" and "Free Radicals" (chiefly the former) - and "weight" is a stunning opener. The most disturbing, "Child's Play", success on two levels in Munro, that the same effect on the reader, the narrator attempts to reach the child her boyfriend. Wonderful.
If you like short stories in(non-South), the tradition of Flannery O'Connor, I'm sure you will like most about this collection.
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