Too Much Happiness Book

Too Much Happiness is a collection of ten short stories by Canadian author, and winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize, Alice Munro.

These are brilliantly paced and provocative stories which turn everyday lives into art, and expand our world and our understanding of the strange workings of the human heart. They are stories lit with sparks of danger and underlying menace, which take on complex, even harrowing, emotions and events and render them into stories that surprise, amaze and shed light on the unpredictable ways we accommodate to what happens in our lives.

A young wife and mother, whose spirit has been crushed, finds solace from her extraordinary pain in the most unlikely place. The student 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. Other stories uncover the deep holes in marriage and their consequences, the dangerous intimacy of girls and the cruelty of children.

This is an enjoyable and varied collection of stories highly recommended to all who love the short story form.