Too Much Happiness

Resumen del libro

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

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Alice Munrox{0026}lt;/B creció en Wingham (Ontario) en el seno de una familia de granjeros y estudió en la Universidad de Western Ontario. Es autora de catorce volúmenes de relatos, varias antologías y una novela. Sus cuentos han aparecido en revistas como x{0026}lt;I The New Yorkerx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Atlantic Monthly x{0026}lt;/I ox{0026}lt;I The Paris Reviewx{0026}lt;/I y han sido traducidos a trece idiomas.x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P A lo largo de su dilatada trayectoria ha recibido numerosos galardones, entre los que destacan el Governor Generalx{0026} x02019;s Award (en tres ocasiones); el Giller Prize (en dos); el National Book Critics Circle Award; el Rea Award; el Lannan Literary Award; el Premio Ennio Flaiano; el W. H. Smith Literary Award; el prestigioso Man Booker International Prize, que le fue otorgado en 2009 por la gran contribución de su obra al panorama literario mundial , y el Premio Nobel de Literatura, que recibió en 2013 por su maestría en el arte del relato .x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P Lumen ha publicadox{0026}lt;I La vida de las mujeres x{0026}lt;/I (1971); x{0026}lt;I Demasiada felicidad x{0026}lt;/I (2009); x{0026}lt;I Mi vida querida x{0026}lt;/I (2012); la selección de sus mejores relatos, que ella misma compiló bajo el títulox{0026}lt;I Todo queda en casa x{0026}lt;/I (2014);x{0026}lt;I ¿Quién te crees que eres? x{0026}lt;/I (2019); x{0026}lt;I Algo que quería contarte x{0026}lt;/I (2021), y x{0026}lt;I Danza de las sombrasx{0026}lt;/I (2022).x{0026}lt;/P