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Not every story here is a home run (I didn't care for the title one, which closes the collection), but if this review was based only on her writing, it would be five stars. Her short stories, all set in Canada and nearly all featuring tough, unsentimental, fascinating women, each contain more depth than lesser writers fit into sprawling novels. My favorites of the bunch were the opener, "Dimensions," and "Free Radicals," both of which feature characters dealing with terrible crimes in very diffe
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I didn't realize when I checked this out that I had already read so many of the stories in it -- I recognized at least three of them, and so I skipped them. I can't decide how much I like Alice Munro, and I sort of feel that I should like her more than I do. There is something about her stories (at least the ones I have read) that is very dark and depressing, though it's not overt. You almost have a sense of what's going to happen before it does, and you're dreading getting there. I'm not sure i
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I gave this book three stars because, without a doubt, Munro is a talented writer. The title is a misnomer, however, in that rather than too much happiness, there appears to be very little happiness in her stories. The writing was quality, but I had a hard time going through the stories.
Stories that stick with you. I should read more by her.
Jan 30, 2013
Katie
marked it as to-read
Oct 11, 2013
Ayla
marked it as to-read
Jul 10, 2015
David William Elswick
marked it as to-read
Oct 30, 2015
Caterina Fava
marked it as wishlist
