Too Much Happiness

Paperback Published on: 02/09/2010
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Synopsis

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

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • ISBN: 9780099524298
  • Number of pages: 320
  • Dimensions: 196 x 130 x 21 mm
  • Weight: 224g
  • Languages: English

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Too Much Happiness
Not very satisfying
I always thought I liked short stories but I've decided I don't. The classic ones for example by Somerset Maugham, seem to be complete with a beginning a m... READ MORE
Mary Stagg
Too Much Happiness
Thought Provoking
Alice Munro is not a writer I am familiar with although I am a big fan of short stories. The first story ‘Dimensions’ left me wanting to know what happened... READ MORE
Helen Gough
Too Much Happiness
Loved It! Would recomend to anyone....
I hadn’t realised this was a book of short stories when I picked it up – I usually avoid these like the plague, finding that I’ve just become engrossed in ... READ MORE
Lisa Cherry