Title: Too Much Happiness (Center Point Platinum Fiction (Large Print))
Author: Alice Munro
Publisher: Center Point Pub
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
ISBN: 160285646X
Type: Hardcover
Condition: Good +
Jacket condition: None as issued
Edition: Large Print
Notes: Ex-library copy that has seen very little, if any, use. Expected stickers and stamps to cover. Text is clean; no creased corners. Cover corners square; light bumps to spine ends. Large Print. A collection of 10 short stories. Large print.
About the Book
Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers--the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize. 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 "deep-holes" in a marriage, the unsuspected cruelty of children, and how a boy's disfigured face provides both the good things in his life and the bad. And in the long title story, we accompany Sophia Kovalevsky--a late-nineteenth-century Russian emigre and mathematician--on 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, provocative--even daring--collection.
