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Afternoon Reading: Alice Munro - Too Much Happiness

Afternoon Reading: Alice Munro - Too Much Happiness: Episode 2: Some Women

Too Much Happiness

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Some Women

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A young girl learns from very different women fighting for the attention of a dying man.

A young girl watches and learns from very different women fighting for the attention of a dying man. Read by Barbara Barnes.

Series of short stories from the new collection by Canadian author Alice Munro. 

Set in a time when 'the streets were sprinkled with water to lay the dust in the summer' and 'people with leukemia went to bed, and after some weeks' or months' decline in a tragic atmosphere, they died.' 

At the Crozier house a man lies dying. When his wife is at work, his stepmother lays on a form of distraction and the young girl brought in to help care for him begins to understand the complexities of adult life. 

Read by Barbara Barnes.

Abridged by Sally Marmion.

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Series of short stories from the new collection by Canadian author Alice Munro

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