Too Much Happiness - E-book - ePub

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Alice Munro - Too Much Happiness.
These are beguiling, provocative stories about manipulative men and the women who outwit them.'Brimming with intensely believable characters and rich... Lire la suite
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These are beguiling, provocative stories about manipulative men and the women who outwit them.'Brimming with intensely believable characters and rich social detail' Sunday TimesA wife and mother whose spirit has been crushed finds release from her extraordinary pain in the most unlikely of places. The young victim of a humiliating seduction 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.
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. Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureWinner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009

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  • Date de parution
    17/08/2010
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  • ISBN
    978-1-4090-1675-5
  • EAN
    9781409016755
  • Format
    ePub
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Biographie d'Alice Munro

**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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