Too Much Hapiness (Audio book)

Ten new short works include the stories of a grieving mother who is aided by a surprising source, a woman's response to a humiliating seduction, and a nineteenth-century Russian âemigrâe's winter journey to the Riviera.

Report

"Filled with subtle and far-reaching thematic reverberations. . . . [Munro has] an empathy so pitch-perfect. . . . You [are] drawn deftly into another world." - The New York Times Book Review

"Profound and beautiful." - Francine Prose, O, The Oprah Magazine

"Alice Munro has done it again. . . . [She] keeps getting better. . . . Her brush strokes are fine, her vision encompasses humanity from its most generous to its most corrupt, and the effect is nothing short of masterful." - The San Francisco Chronicle

"Richly detailed and dense with psychological observation. . . . Munro exhibit[s] a remarkable gift for transforming the seemingly artless into art . . . [She] concentrate[s] upon provincial, even backcountry lives, in tales of domestic tragicomedy that seem to open up, as if by magic, into wider, deeper, vaster dimensions." - Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books

"A perfect 10. . . . With this collection of surprising short stories, Munro once again displays the fertility of her imagination and her craftsmanship as a writer." - USA Today

"Masterly. . . . [A] remarkable new book." - The Los Angeles Times

"Daring and unpredictable. . . . Reading Munro is an intensely personal experience. Her focus is so clear and her style so precise. . . . Each [story is] dramatically and subtly different." - The Miami Herald

"A brand-new collection of short stories from Alice Munro - winner of a Man Booker Prize - is always cause for celebration, and Too Much Happiness doesn't disappoint. It dazzles. The 10 spare, lovely tales are . . . brimming with emotion and memorable characters. . . . Munro's are stories that linger long after you turn the last page." - Entertainment Weekly , Grade A

"Finely, even ingeniously, crafted. . . . Deliver[ed] with instinctive acuity." - The Seattle Times

"Rich. . . . Truthful, in the deepest sense of the word. . . . Reading an Alice Munro short story is like sinking into a reverie. She expertly captures the shadings and byways of associative thought. . . . [Munro] will surely be remembered as the writer who took the short story to the depth of what short fiction can plumb." - The Kansas City Star , Best 100 Books of 2009

"Rich and satisfying. . . . A commanding collection and one of her strongest. . . . Short fiction of this caliber should be on everyone's reading list. Munro's stories are accessible; she simply writes about life. . . . Honest, intuitive storytelling that gives the short story a good name." - Chicago Sun-Times

"There's never too much happiness in a Munro collection, just sentence after sentence to die for." - Louisville Courier-Journal

"[Munro is] universally acknowledged as one of the greatest short-story writers of our time. . . . [Her] work [is] at such a high level. . . . These stories are extraordinary, ample with the shrewdness and empathy that we have come to take for granted in Munro. . . . Her most distinguishing characteristic as a writer is . . . her extraordinary intimacy with her characters." - The New Republic

"Coherent and compelling. . . . Munro manages to turn the sentimental into the existential." - The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Stunning. . . . An unexpected gift. . . . Here we have 10 perfectly honed pieces, each a study of the human psyche in hard-to-imagine circumstances that Munro presents, seemingly effortlessly, in an economy of words and sentences." - The Buffalo News

"As always in her distinctive stories, Alice Murno's style is vivid, her attention tireless, her curiosity omnivorous, and her sentences drawn from the freshest of springs." - The Washington Post

"If there's a better short story writer working today than Alice Munro, I haven't read her. In story after story, Munro manages to compress whole lives and emotional arcs into 20 or so shapely pages, long enough to engage us in their world but short enough to absorb in a single sitting or commute. Her prose is spare without feeling rushed or cryptic, at once luc

Product details

• Authors: Alice Munro
• Assisted by: Kimberly Farr (Reader / Narrator), Arthur Morey (Reader / Narrator)
• Publisher: Random House USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: CD-Audio
• Released: 16.11.2009
• EAN: 9780307576736
• ISBN: 978-0-307-57673-6
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 148 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Random House Audio; Random House Audio
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature