Too Much Happiness
«She writes with a beautiful clarity, an elemental humanity and a marvellous, limpid, funny, apprehension of what goes on»
Jane Shilling, Sunday Telegraph
These are beguiling, provocative stories about manipulative men and the women who outwit them.
‘Brimming with intensely believable characters and rich social detail’ Sunday Times
A wife and mother whose spirit has been crushed finds release from her extraordinary pain in the most unlikely of places.
These are beguiling, provocative stories about manipulative men and the women who outwit them.
‘Brimming with intensely believable characters and rich social detail’ Sunday Times
A wife and mother whose spirit has been crushed finds release from her extraordinary pain in the most unlikely of places. The young victim of a humiliating seduction finds an unusual way to get her own back and move on. An older woman, dying of cancer, weaves a poisonous story to save her life. Alice Munro takes on complex, even harrowing emotions and events and renders them into stories that surprise, amaze, and shed light on the unpredictable ways we accommodate to what happens in our lives.
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Vintage
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 320
- ISBN
- 9780099524298
- Utgivelsesår
- 2010
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
Om forfatteren
Alice Munro was born in 1931 and was the author of thirteen collections of stories and the novel,
Lives of Girls and Women. She received many awards and prizes, including three of Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, the WHSmith Book Award in the UK, the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for
Who Do You Think You Are? (previously published as
The Beggar Maid), and was awarded the Man Booker International Prize 2009 for her overall contribution to fiction on the world stage, and in 2013 she won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her stories have appeared in the
New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. Alice Munro died in 2024.
Anmeldelser
«She writes with a beautiful clarity, an elemental humanity and a marvellous, limpid, funny, apprehension of what goes on»
Jane Shilling, Sunday Telegraph
«Some of the most honest, intuitive and exacting fiction, long or short, of our time»
Tom Gatti, The Times
«Munro's bold, unflinching narratives have taken the short story places many a novelist has feared to tread... That she does this in a style both calm and deliberate, fluid yet tightly controlled, stark yet compassionate, is what makes her insights into the human condition so profound»
Mary Crockett, Scotsman
«Written with veteran assurance, brimming with intensely believable characters and rich social detail, these dispatches from the most unsparing reaches of Munro's imagination confirm her acclaimed place on the highest ground of contemporary fiction»
Peter Kemp, Sunday Times
«Alice Munro commands enormous respect and almost uncritical adoration from her readers»
Elaine Showalter, Literary Review