too much happiness

Description

A family walks on a Saturday afternoon through a forest where the treetops conceal treacherous caves. The eldest son falls into one of them, and his whole life is affected by the discovery of d?this truth: beneath the smooth surface of events are cracks that draw us in. The characters in this collection of ten stories all experience falling into a great crack. I, through him, what Alice Munro awakens in us is vertigo - fear and seduction- from the bottom. “Alice Munro gives each of her stories a foundation, the intelligence and precision that many novelists pour into the work of a lifetime.”