Too much happiness : stories
Record details
- ISBN: 160285646X
- ISBN: 9781602856462
- ISBN: 0307390349
- ISBN: 9780307390349
- ISBN: 0307269760
- ISBN: 9780307269768
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Physical Description:
303 pages ; 22 cm
print - Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, ©2009.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Dimensions -- Fiction -- Wenlock edge -- Deep-holes -- Free radicals -- Face -- Some women -- Child's play -- Wood -- Too much happiness. |
Summary, etc.: | Ten new short stories from the author tackle a variety of themes, such as love, loss, and redemption. In the first story a young wife and mother receives release from the unbearable pain of losing her three children from a most surprising source. In another, a young woman, in the aftermath of an unusual and humiliating seduction, reacts in a clever if less-than-admirable fashion. Other stories uncover the "deep-holes" in a marriage, the unsuspected cruelty of children, and how a boy's disfigured face provides both the good things in his life and the bad. And in the long title story, we accompany Sophia Kovalevsky, a late-nineteenth-century Russian é́migré and mathematician, on a winter journey that takes her from the Riviera, where she visits her lover, to Paris, Germany, and, Denmark, where she has a fateful meeting with a local doctor, and finally to Sweden, where she teaches at the only university in Europe willing to employ a female mathematician. Here the author renders complex, difficult events and emotions into stories that shed light on the unpredictable ways in which men and women accommodate and often transcend what happens in their lives. |
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Subject: | Short stories, Canadian Short stories |
Genre: | Short stories. Short stories. |
Available copies
- 36 of 39 copies available at Bibliomation.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Rowayton Library. (Show)
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- 0 current holds with 39 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Rowayton Library | F MUN (Text) | 33625112555375 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Ansonia Public Library | FIC MUNRO, ALICE (Text) | 34045117360169 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bethel Public Library | F MUNRO (Text) | 34030117376597 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Black Rock Branch - Bridgeport | FIC MUNRO (Text) | 34000080028046 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Booth & Dimock Library - Coventry | AF SS MUN (Text) | 33260000048984 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Brookfield Library | F/MUNRO (Text) | 34029117128586 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Burnham Library - Bridgewater | FIC SS MUNRO (Text) | 36937002111012 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Burroughs-Saden Main - Bridgeport | FIC MUNRO (Text) | 34000080028988 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | FIC MUNRO (Text) | 34014117959818 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 03/30/2024 |
Deep River Public Library | F Munr (Text) | 36039001117155 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 04/05/2024 |