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GET LIT: Win a copy of Alice Munro's short-story collection Too Much Happiness

POSTED: Monday, December 7, 2009, 6:00 PM

Filed Under: Arts Books

Knopf, 320 pp.,
$25.95, Nov. 17

Book Quarterly Giveaway Week continues, as promised, with a chance to win a copy of Alice Munro's Too Much Happiness. In case for some reason you missed this week's issue, here's what senior editor Patrick Rapa had to say about the collection:

Alice Munro used to be the Mary Queen of Scots of short fiction, deserving of the throne but locked away by her pastoral prose, her litera verite plots, her Canadianess. You could call it a power play that her new Too Much Happiness runs wild with ghosts and psychopaths and nudity. So there's a little pizzazz, but it's the same old Alice, a prisoner to her own tasteful, sublime storytelling.

To win a copy, answer the following trivia question:

American writer Cynthia Ozick has compared Alice Munro to what Russian lit all-star?

E-mail your answers to carolyn.huckabay@citypaper.net for a chance to win. And check back with CritMass tomorrow, when we'll be giving away a copy of Augusten Burroughs' You Better Not Cry.

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