Name: Zu viel Glück : zehn Erzählungen
ISBN: 9783596186860

Alice Munro

Zu viel Glück : zehn Erzählungen

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.

Too Much Happiness

Trever

I know a lot of people measure how good a story is by how much of it sticks with them. I find that generally short stories I remember better than novels, which I often lose plot points of. But months after reading this one I still remember the plot of "Child's Play" because of its O'Connor-esque twist. Looking at the list, I can still recall details of "Dimensions" and "Fiction". I remember enjoying "Some Women", not really getting "Wenlock Edge", "Free Radicals", or "Face", and not particularly caring for "Wood" and "Too Much Happiness". But the good definitely outshines the mediocre here.

**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** These are beguiling, provocative stories about manipulative men and the women who outwit them, about destructive marriages and curdled friendships, about mothers and sons, about moments which change or haunt a life. Alice Munro's stories surprise and delight, turning lives into art, expanding our world and shedding light on the strange workings of the human heart.

Catarina

This is a very ironic title, you'll find very little happiness in these pages. I don't usually go for short stories, but this collection was undoubtedly worth my time. Loved it so much, I already have another Alice Munro coming my way. :)

Zu viel Glück : zehn Erzählungen

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