Too Much Happiness
Anne Enright
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
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Reviews for Too Much Happiness
Jane Shilling
Sunday Telegraph
Some of the most honest, intuitive and exacting fiction, long or short, of our time
Tom Gatti
The Times
Munro's bold, unflinching narratives have taken the short story places many a novelist has feared to tread... That she does this in a style both calm and deliberate, fluid yet tightly controlled, stark yet compassionate, is what makes her insights into the human condition so profound
Mary Crockett
Scotsman
Written with veteran assurance, brimming with intensely believable characters and rich social detail, these dispatches from the most unsparing reaches of Munro's imagination confirm her acclaimed place on the highest ground of contemporary fiction
Peter Kemp
Sunday Times
Alice Munro commands enormous respect and almost uncritical adoration from her readers
Elaine Showalter
Literary Review