“Alice Munro has done more than anyone to raise the status of the short story … Really, who could be better?”—Evening Standard

Alice Munro Too Much Happiness

Brilliantly paced, lit with sparks of danger and underlying menace, these are dazzling, provocative stories about Svengali men and the radical women who outmanoeuvre them, about destructive marriages and curdled friendships, about mothers and sons, about moments that change or haunt a 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 what happens in our lives. Munro’s unsettling stories turn lives into art, and expand our world and our understanding of the strange workings of the human heart.

Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published fourteen previous books. During her distinguished career, she has been Sales the recipient of many awards and prizes, including the recent Too Much Happiness was a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize for “a body of work that has 2009 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and contributed to an achievement in fiction on the world stage.” for the Governor General’s Literary Award Photo credit: Jerry Bauer She divides her time between Clinton, Ontario, and Comox, for Fiction British Columbia. It was a national bestseller Published by Knopf in the U.S. and by Chatto and Windus in the U.K. Praise for Alice Munro

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