Too Much Happiness

Alice Munro · 2009 CE · Short Story · Modern / American · Contemporary

Ten stories of violence, grief and the ways people go on afterwards. The title novella follows the mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya on her last journey through Europe to Stockholm in 1891. One of the last books Munro published before her retirement.

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