num_pages: 304
description: In these ten stories 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.Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writersthe 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 boys disfigured face provides both the good things in his life and the bad. And in the long title story we accompany Sophia Kovalevskya late-nineteenth-century Russian migr and mathematicianon 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.Dimensions --Fiction --Wenlock edge --Deep-holes --Free radicals --Face --Some women --Child's play --Wood --Too much happiness
language: English
title: Too Much Happiness: Stories
publisher: Alfred A. Knopf