Too Much Happiness
By
Munro, Alice
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| Price: | $25.95 |
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| Categories: | Short Stories, Self-Improvement, General Fiction |
| ISBN: | 9780307273239 |
| Publisher: | Knopf, Random House, Inc. |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published eleven new collections of stories-Dance of the Happy Shades; Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You; The Beggar Maid; The Moons of Jupiter; The Progress of Love; Friend of My Youth; Open Secrets; The Love of a Good Woman; Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage; Runaway; and a volume of Selected Stories-as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women. During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including the Man Booker International Prize, three of Canada's Governor General's Literary Awards and two of its Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, England's W. H. Smith Book Award, the United States' National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Edward MacDowell Medal in literature. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. Continue reading...
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Helpful Customer Reviews
Too Much Happiness
Katie (New York, NY)
Tue Dec 15 2009 15:35
Alice Munro is a master of the short story, and this volume is no exception. Despite the title, most of these stories are about too little happiness, or really, too much tragedy. But she never takes the obvious approach to her devastating little plot lines, and it is this feature (along with her hum...more...
Diana (Syracuse, NY)
Sun May 09 2010 12:06
Got through three of the short stories in this book and just didn't' want to bother with more. I know Munro is a highly acclaimed author, but her writing style just doesn't grab me. I couldn't feel much, if any, sympathy for the characters in the stories I did read, so I didn't force myself to conti...more...
Nancy (Columbus, OH)
Mon Jan 11 2010 20:21
I was telling Josh that I couldn't put my finger on why I found this book so compelling -- and he was telling me about the first story in the collection, which I didn't remember AT ALL. ?! !
What I do know is that I listened to the stories probably a total of three times, going back and g...more...
Amy (West Hartland, CT)
Tue Feb 02 2010 17:40
The writing is so natural and Munro makes it looks effortless. The characters, their voices, their stories, the places where they live, falter and trimuph, survive and die, have changed me. The plot twists are at times unlikely and at the same time completely believable, the way Flannery O'Connor wo...more...
Steph (The United States)
Tue May 04 2010 07:59
Another impressive collection of short sories from Munro. I first read "Runaway" and was enthralled with the little pieces of ordinary people's lives which Munro manages to give an unsentimental yet soulful view. There is real depth to her writing and to her idenfication of moments, and th...more...
Edan (Los Angeles, CA)
Thu Dec 31 2009 19:29
Alice Munro is a masterful and wise writer, and when I'm reading her work I feel enveloped in a beauty I cannot access anywhere else. The way she skips around and tangles time in this collection is truly extraordinary. I think she's far more experimental than people give her credit for, perhaps beca...more...
Dagny (The United States)
Wed Jan 13 2010 23:58
December 2009:
This book will be my Christmas treat.
January 2010:
Too Much Happiness was a bit of a re-gifting, because I had read all but two of the ten stories in the New Yorker. Still I read them all again, with gratitude, because that's Alice Munro for me. Few other authors...more...
Veronica (Narbonne, 11, France)
Wed Feb 10 2010 14:48
I've read every single one of Alice Munro's collections of short stories at least once, so it's good that she still has the power to surprise me. Most of these stories are a new departure, really untypical of her. Most of them involve macabre events, and sometimes surprising twists, so unlike her. I...more...
Kasey (Philadelphia, PA)
Sun Feb 07 2010 12:14
It's probably impossible for me to not adore a new Alice Munro book; she is one of my all-time favorites (I will most likely add this book to my "all time favorites" shelf, but I feel like I should give it at least a month before making a Big Decision like that). It's also practically imp...more...
Andrea (Boston, MA)
Thu Jul 01 2010 09:30
"Too Much Happiness" had too much disappointment. The whole point of this collection of stories is that in our lives we have big relationships and small relationships and what we do within those relationships can affect the rest of both of your lives forever. Most of the stories dealt wi...more...
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