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Too Much Happiness

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2009 gewann Alice Munro den Man Booker International Prize. Hier liegen nun 10 neue Kurzgeschichten der Autorin vor.

Brilliantly paced, lit with sparks of danger and underlying menace, these are dazzling, provocative stories about Svengali men, and radical women who outmanoeuvre them, about destructive marriages and curdled friendships, about mothers and sons, about moments which change or haunt a life. Alice Munro takes on complex, even harrowing emotions and events, and renders them into stories that surprise, amaze and shed light on the unpredictable ways we accommodate to what happens in our lives.

A wife and mother, whose spirit has been crushed, finds release from her extraordinary pain in the most unlikely place. The young victim of a humiliating seduction (which involves reading Housman in the nude) 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. The long title story follows Sophia Kovalevsky, a late nineteenth-century Russian emigree and mathematical genius, as she takes a fateful winter journey that begins with a visit to her lover on the Riviera, and ends in Sweden, where she is a professor at the only university willing to hire a woman to teach her subject.

Munro's unsettling stories turn lives into art, expand our world and our understanding of the strange workings of the human heart.

Produktdetails

Erscheinungsdatum
02. September 2010
Sprache
englisch
Seitenanzahl
303
Autor/Autorin
Alice Munro
Verlag/Hersteller
Produktart
kartoniert
Gewicht
177 g
Größe (L/B/H)
177/108/25 mm
Sonstiges
A-format paperback
ISBN
9780099552444

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Alice Munro

Munro, Alice

**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**


Alice Munro was born in 1931 and is the author of thirteen collections of stories, most recently Dear Life, and a novel, Lives of Girls and Women. She has received many awards and prizes, including three of Canada's Governor General's Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, the WHSmith Book Award in the UK, the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for The Beggar Maid, and has been awarded the Man Booker International Prize 2009 for her overall contribution to fiction on the world stage, and in 2013 she won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages.

She lives in Port Hope, Ontario, near lake Ontario in Canada.


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Von Gisela B. am 09.11.2013

Munro,A.:Too Much Happiness

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2013 ! Another wonderful collection from one who is becoming my favourite short story writer, even if I usully don't like reading short stories. I highly recommend Alice Munro for everyone, who loves good writing and honest, intuitive fiction.