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Too Much Happiness
By Alice Munro
320 pages; Knopf
Too Much Happiness is the title of Alice Munro's collection, but the characters in these ten powerful short stories hardly seem to be suffering from an excess of joy. Rather, like the rest of us, they're struggling to cope with the losses and disappointments, the shocks and surprises, the dramatic turning points that leave their ineradicable mark on every life...Read more
320 pages; Knopf
Too Much Happiness is the title of Alice Munro's collection, but the characters in these ten powerful short stories hardly seem to be suffering from an excess of joy. Rather, like the rest of us, they're struggling to cope with the losses and disappointments, the shocks and surprises, the dramatic turning points that leave their ineradicable mark on every life...Read more
From the July 2010 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine