Too Much Happiness: Stories - Rilegato

Munro, Alice

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ISBN 10: 0771065299 ISBN 13: 9780771065293

Casa editrice: McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 2009

Riassunto

An international literary event: Ten new stories from a beloved and award-winning author.

This stunning collection of new stories demonstrates once again why Alice Munro is celebrated as a pre-eminent master of the short story. While some of the stories are traditional, set in “Alice Munro Country” in Ontario or in B.C., dealing with ordinary women’s lives, others have a new, sharper edge. They involve child murders, strange sex, and a terrifying home invasion. By way of astonishing variety, the title story, set in Victorian Europe, follows the last journey from France to Sweden of a famous Russian mathematician. This daring, superb collection proves that Alice Munro will always surprise you.

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“This book can make your skin crawl with its uncoverings of the transitoriness and precariousness of comfortable everyday existence...a masterpiece of plotting... Written with veteran assurance, brimming with intensely believeable 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

“She has the lightest of touches, with every word seeming entirely necessary”
— Lorna Bradbury, Telegraph Review

“Alice Munro’s latest collection of short stories reaffirms her as a writer of piercing insight... Some of the most honest, intuitive and exacting fiction, long or short, of our time”
— Tom Gatti, The Times

“She is one of the grandees of English-language short fiction...Her prose is clean, precise and unmannered...she gives the impression of being able to make the form do pretty much anything she wants”
— Christopher Taylor, Saturday Guardian

“She writes with a beautiful, mathematical clarity, an elemental humanity and a marvellous, limpid, funny apprehension of what goes on”
— Jane Shilling Telegraph

“There is a substantial quality to Munro’s stories that makes you feel you have stumbled on an entire world, but have been given only a peek into the protagonists’ lives, which will continue apace when your eye has long since passed over them...Cleverly wrought, intense pieces of work”
— Rosemary Goring, Sunday Herald

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

“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, The Scotsman

L'autore:

Now 78, Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published fourteen previous books — Dance of the Happy Shades; Lives of Girls and Women, Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You; Who Do You Think You Are?; The Moons of Jupiter; The Progress of Love; Friend of My Youth; Open Secrets; Selected Stories; The Love of a Good Woman; Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage; Runaway; The View from Castle Rock; and Alice Munro’s Best. During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including the recent Man Booker International Prize given to her in Dublin for “a body of work that has contributed to an achievement in fiction on the world stage.”

Here at home she has won too many awards to list, including three Governor General’s Literary Awards, two Giller Prizes, several Trillium Prizes and a number of Libris Awards. Elsewhere she has won the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, England’s W. H. Smith Book Award, Italy’s Pescara prize, the United States’ National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Edward MacDowell Medal in literature. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Saturday Night, The Paris Review, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages.

Alice Munro divides her time between Clinton, Ontario, and Comox, British Columbia.

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• Editore: McClelland & Stewart Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0771065299
• ISBN 13: 9780771065293
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 320