{"product_id":"too-much-happiness","title":"Too Much Happiness","description":"Brilliantly paced, lit with sparks of danger and underlying menace, these are dazzling, provocative stories about Svengali men, and radical women who outmanoeuvre them, about destructive marriages and curdled friendships, about mothers and sons, about moments which change or haunt a 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. A wife and mother, whose \u003cspan style=\"list-style:none;float:none;color:rgb(0,153,0);position:relative;display:inline;text-align:left;margin:0px;border-style:none none solid;border-bottom-width:1px;padding:0px 0px 0.065em;text-decoration:underline;line-height:16px;\"\u003espirit\u003c\/span\u003e has been crushed, finds release from her extraordinary pain in the most unlikely place. The young victim of a humiliating seduction (which involves reading Housman in the nude) finds an unusual way to get her own back and move on. An older woman, dying of \u003cspan style=\"list-style:none;float:none;color:rgb(0,153,0);position:relative;display:inline;text-align:left;margin:0px;border-style:none none solid;border-bottom-width:1px;padding:0px 0px 0.065em;text-decoration:underline;line-height:16px;\"\u003ecancer\u003c\/span\u003e, weaves a poisonous story to save her life. Other stories uncover the 'deep holes' in marriage and their consequences, the dangerous intimacy of girls and the cruelty of children. The long title story follows Sophia Kovalevsky, a late nineteenth-century Russian emigree and mathematical genius, as she takes a fateful winter journey that begins with a visit to her lover on the Riviera, and ends in Sweden, where she is a professor at the only \u003cspan style=\"list-style:none;float:none;color:rgb(0,153,0);position:relative;display:inline;text-align:left;margin:0px;border-style:none none solid;border-bottom-width:1px;padding:0px 0px 0.065em;text-decoration:underline;line-height:16px;\"\u003euniversity\u003c\/span\u003e willing to hire a womean to teach her a subject. \n Dimensions:110 x 178  \n Author: Alice Munro \n ISBN: 9780099552444 \n Format: Paperback \n Pages 303","brand":"bookhero.ae","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44127318737049,"sku":"3RD9780099552444","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0580\/5696\/6297\/files\/05765969ac30e38cb698d350800f5078.jpg?v=1712995800","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.ae\/products\/too-much-happiness","provider":"Dubai - Buy Used\/Second-Hand Books - BookHero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}