Too Much Happiness
- Published: 1 November 2010
- ISBN: 9781409016755
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 320
Alice Munro commands enormous respect and almost uncritical adoration from her readers
Elaine Showalter, Literary Review
Too Much Happiness is her 11th collection, and as brilliant and surprising as any ... who could be better?
Claire Harman, Evening Standard
She has the lightest of touches, with every word seeming entirely necessary, but nothing set in stone....remarkable collection
Lorna Bradbury, Daily Telegraph
Some of the most honest, intuitive and exacting fiction, long or short, of our time
Tom Gatti, The Times
Written with veteran assurance, brimming with intensely believable 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
Munro is famously hard to write about, in part because she's the opposite of the Borges character who joked about belonging not to art but to the history of art. Far from hanging on to the gates of literature, her stories create a powerful illusion of bringing their readers up against unmediated life; and life isn't penetrable by the normal procedures of book reviewing. Is Too Much Happiness as substantial a collection as Runaway (2004) or Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001)? The only sensible answer is to recommend buying all three
Christopher Tayler, The Guardian
She writes with a beautiful clarity, an elemental humanity and a marvellous, limpid, funny, apprehension of what goes on
Jane Shilling, Sunday Telegraph
As strong and vivid as ever... a gift for the humane observation and the specific, plausible detail
Philip Hensher, Spectator
Assured collection from the short-story queen
Sunday Times
Munro's bold, unflinching narratives have taken the short story places many a novelist has feared to tread... That she does this in 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, Scotsman