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Book review:Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro

Posted on August 31, 2010 by englishcoach

Too Much Happiness: Stories by Alice Munro There should be a special category for Munro. She takes you into her house of fiction, opening doors onto pain and horror, onto hope and happiness (too much), onto searing truth and ravaging … Continue reading →

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Book review: Friend of my Youth by Alice Munro

Posted on December 22, 2009 by englishcoach

Small town southern Ontario settings, ordinary people going about nothing more spectacular than living, loving, working, dying; but Alice Munro turns the seemingly mundane into glowing, jewel-like tales that reveal  the ‘shameless, marvellous, shattering absurdity’ of life. Each story leaves … Continue reading →

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