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Too Much Happiness: Stories
(Hardcover, 2009)
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Author: Alice Munro
After the publication of Alice Munro's 2006 short-story collection THE VIEW FROM CASTLE ROCK, Munro ...
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0307269760
ISBN-13: 9780307269768
Nov 2009
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
304 pages
Language: English |
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Synopsis
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. Selected as an Editor's Choice Book of the Year 2009 by Atlantic magazine.
| Size | | Length: | 304 pages | | Height: | 9.0 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 16.8 oz |
Industry Reviews
"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."
(08/01/2009)
"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)
(08/01/2009)
"[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."
(08/21/2009)
"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)
(08/17/2009)
"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?"
(11/01/2009)
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