Too Much Happiness,
by Alice Munro, is a surprising collection of short stories. Munro has the unique ability to take an
everyday situation and impart a strangeness to it.
"Wenlock Edge" is one of the more obvious examples. In this story, the young female protagonist appears to inhabit our world, until she gets involved with experiences at
the very margin of the normal. And her
reactions to her situation are telling, and reveal what Munro thinks about
human behavior and our reactions to the liminal.
These stories are gripping, compelling, and have the force
of necessity. This is high praise for
art: the feeling that it must be written; that it is good that it has been
written.
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