By JAMES D. WATTS JR. Scene Writer on Jan 6, 2010, at 3:52 PM Updated on 1/06 at 3:52 PM
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When I first received my copy of Alice Munro's latest book, "Too Much Happiness," I really didn't pay that much attention to the cover. I read the title, saw Munro's name, opened it and started reading.
But after a while, I realized there was something very familiar about the cover. The front and back of the book's jacket are illustrated with tiny figures of a woman on the front, a man on the back, both bundled up for winter weather.
The reason these two people were familiar was that they had paid a visit to Tulsa last spring. "Snow Woman" and "Snow Man" were two of the extraordinary drawings by Peggy Preheim in her show "Little Black Book," that was at Philbrook Museum from May to July 2009.
Preheim's work is notably for the incredibly detail she captures in her almost microscopic pencil drawings -- detail so precise one can easily mistake them for photographs.
Munro's work, which will be reviewed in detail in the next week or so, does the same thing. Her short stories have a richness to them, and a sense of life at once captured and transformed, that would take many writers hundreds of pages to achieve.
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