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Too much Happiness
Too much Happiness
Author: Alice Munro
Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers - the winner of the Man Booker International Prize. With clarity and ease, Alice munro once again renders complex, difficult events and emotions into stoires about the unpreditable ways in which men and women accommodate and often transcend what happens in their lives.
ISBN-13: 9780307742254
ISBN-10: 0307742253
Publication Date: 2009
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 1
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Helpful Score: 3
This collection of short stories by Alice Munroe is a marvel. The characters in each are subtly and skillfully drawn that I found myself as much in awe of Munroes grasp of her craft as in the ability to inhabit the stories themselves. At the end of most I found myself wishing this were not a disparate collection, but a full-length novel where I could voyeuristically continue observing the characters.

In some cases this wish for an extension of the stories stemmed from the fact that I really wasnt sure Id caught the nuances of character and plot. I suspect some who dont often explore the world of honed fiction might end a number of stories with the line, What exactly was going on here? This is my confession as well, but at the end of the book, I still felt as if I had somehow been treated to prose so beautifully crafted as to breath fresh air. What a rare treat.
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Helpful Score: 3
I read this book of short stories for a fiction class. The stories are wonderful and the characters are real, something very hard to do in a short story.
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