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TOO MUCH HAPPINESS
By: Alice Munro
Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers?the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize.
Knopf
November 2009
On Sale: November 17, 2009
320 pages
ISBN: 0307269760
EAN: 9780307269768
Hardcover
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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 βdeep-holesβ in a marriage, the unsuspected cruelty of children, and how a boyβs disfigured face provides both the good things in his life and the bad. And in the long title story, we accompany Sophia Kovalevskyβa late-nineteenth-century Russian Γ©migrΓ© and mathematicianβon 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, provocativeβeven daringβcollection.
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