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- Book Title
- Happiest People in the World : a Novel
- Publication Name
- The Happiest People in the World
- Title
- The Happiest People in the World
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1616204796
- EAN
- 9781616204792
- ISBN
- 9781616204792
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
- Genre
- Fiction
- Release Year
- 2015
- Release Date
- 30/06/2015
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 2.1 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Topic
- General, Satire
- Number of Pages
- 368 Pages
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" A] dark and funny satire . . . Infidelities, secret identities and double-crosses . . . Reflects the absurdity of any country obsessed with spying on its own people." -- The Wall Street Journal Take the format of a spy thriller, shape it around real-life incidents involving international terrorism, leaven it with dark, dry humor, toss in a love rectangle, give everybody a gun, and let everything play out in the outer reaches of upstate New York--there you have an idea of Brock Clarke's new novel. Filled with wonder and anger in almost equal parts, The Happiest People in the World is a ripped-from-the-headlines tale of paranoia and the all-American obsession with security and the conspiracies that threaten it. "A literary first: a book that feels like the love child of Saul Bellow and Hogan's Heroes, full of authorial cartwheels of comedy and profundity." -- GQ " The Happiest People in the World begins with a raucous bar scene featuring party streamers, smoke, prone bodies, spilled fluids and a stuffed moose with a surveillance camera in its left eye . . . Clarke has] success in dreaming up oddball originals that have instant appeal." --Janet Maslin, The New York Times " Clarke] creates books that taste like delicious cuts of absurdity marbled with erudition." -- The Washington Post "A whiz-bang spy satire bundled in an edgy tale of redemption . . . His comedy of errors is impossible to put down." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review "A darkly hilarious novel . . . The writing is clever, the dialogue snappy and understated, and the effect is as pleasantly unsettling as anything Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ever wrote." -- The Portland Sun "A zany and fast-paced book that explores the myriad ways people of all nations make themselves and others unhappy." -- Chicago Tribune, Printer's Row "Ranks among the funniest and most relevant social satires I've read . . . It might just make you the happiest reader in the world." -- The Dallas Morning News
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
ISBN-10
1616204796
ISBN-13
9781616204792
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Book Title
Happiest People in the World : a Novel
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, Satire
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
2.1 Oz
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"A literary first: a book that feels like the love child of Saul Bellow and Hogan's Heroes , full of authorial cartwheels of comedy and profundity." -- GQ "A whiz-bang spy satire bundled in an edgy tale of redemption . . . Clarke dazzles with a dizzying study in extremes, cruising at warp speed between bleak and optimistic, laugh-out-loud funny and unbearable sadness. His comedy of errors is impossible to put down." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "The funniest and smartest novel I have read in years. Yes! I thought, as I read these pages. That's how you write a good book. " -- Hannah Tinti, author The Good Thief "Brock Clarke's hilarious new novel starts out in rural Denmark, then takes us someplace really foreign and utterly weird: upstate New York. The parallel universe Clarke creates there is both our world and not, and like his baffled, yearning characters, we navigate it with surprise and wonder." -- Richard Russo, author of Elsewhere "[A] dark and funny satire . . . The ridiculous confusion of infidelities, secret identities and double-crosses that plays out reflects the absurdity of any country obsessed with spying on its own people." -- The Wall Street Journal "Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world." -- Edith Pearlman, author of Binocular Vision "If the literary category of 'mordant fable' exists at all, it may be because Brock Clarke invented it. The Happiest People in the World is everything we fans have come to love from a Clarke novel: playful and deliriously skewed, and somehow balancing between genuinely great-hearted and gloriously weird." -- Lauren Groff, author of Arcadia "Brock Clarke has long been one of my favorite writers, and this novel, good lord, is his best one yet. In The Happiest People in the World , Clarke portrays, with terrifying accuracy, the lives of people who constantly ruin things without ever quite understanding why or how, which eventually gives way to a strange kind of invulnerability. There is no writer who does this better than him, creating that wonderful mixture of unexpected, sharp comedy and genuine empathy. The Danes may be the happiest people in the world, but you can easily join those ranks by simply reading this amazing book." -- Kevin Wilson, author of The Family Fang "Like no other writer in contemporary American literature, Brock Clarke has a way of looking at us, I mean looking straight at us--warts, lots of warts, and beauty and hypocrisy and love, too, the gamut. And he's done it again in this brilliant The Happiest People in the World , a novel that is as hilarious and thought-provoking as it is ultimately, deadly, deadly serious. I for one am grateful he's out there--watching our every move." -- Peter Orner, author of Esther Stories and Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge, "A literary first: a book that feels like the love child of Saul Bellow and Hogan's Heroes , full of authorial cartwheels of comedy and profundity." -- GQ "[Clarke knows] how to get a novel off to a snorting good start . . . The Happiest People in the World begins with a raucous bar scene featuring party streamers, smoke, prone bodies, spilled fluids and a stuffed moose with a surveillance camera in its left eye . . . [Clarke has] success in dreaming up oddball originals that have instant appeal." -- Janet Maslin, The New York Times "The funniest and smartest novel I have read in years. Yes! I thought, as I read these pages. That's how you write a good book. " -- Hannah Tinti, author The Good Thief "[Clarke] creates books that taste like delicious cuts of absurdity marbled with erudition." -- The Washington Post "A zany and fast-paced book that explores the myriad ways people of all nations make themselves and others unhappy . . . Clarke's comedy is complex and packed with big ideas, but also wonderful sentences . . . This book is a goofball, but a goofball with an edge; its humor and quirkiness are not ends in themselves, but doors that Clarke uses to open the view out onto a bigger vista: the span of America, unto itself, and in relation to the world." -- Chicago Tribune's Printers Row "A whiz-bang spy satire bundled in an edgy tale of redemption . . . Clarke dazzles with a dizzying study in extremes, cruising at warp speed between bleak and optimistic, laugh-out-loud funny and unbearable sadness. His comedy of errors is impossible to put down." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "Brock Clarke's hilarious new novel starts out in rural Denmark, then takes us someplace really foreign and utterly weird: upstate New York. The parallel universe Clarke creates there is both our world and not, and like his baffled, yearning characters, we navigate it with surprise and wonder." -- Richard Russo, author of Elsewhere "[A] dark and funny satire . . . The ridiculous confusion of infidelities, secret identities and double-crosses that plays out reflects the absurdity of any country obsessed with spying on its own people." -- The Wall Street Journal "Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world." -- Edith Pearlman, author of Binocular Vision "If the literary category of 'mordant fable' exists at all, it may be because Brock Clarke invented it. The Happiest People in the World is everything we fans have come to love from a Clarke novel: playful and deliriously skewed, and somehow balancing between genuinely great-hearted and gloriously weird." -- Lauren Groff, author of Arcadia "Brock Clarke has long been one of my favorite writers, and this novel, good lord, is his best one yet. In The Happiest People in the World , Clarke portrays, with terrifying accuracy, the lives of people who constantly ruin things without ever quite understanding why or how, which eventually gives way to a strange kind of invulnerability. There is no writer who does this better than him, creating that wonderful mixture of unexpected, sharp comedy and genuine empathy. The Danes may be the happiest people in the world, but you can easily join those ranks by simply reading this amazing book." -- Kevin Wilson, author of The Family Fang, "Brock Clarke's hilarious new novel starts out in rural Denmark, then takes us someplace really foreign and utterly weird: upstate New York. The parallel universe Clarke creates there is both our world and not, and like his baffled, yearning characters, we navigate it with surprise and wonder." --Richard Russo, author of Elsewhere "Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world." --Edith Pearlman, author of Binocular Vision "If the literary category of 'mordant fable' exists at all, it may be because Brock Clarke invented it. The Happiest People in the World is everything we fans have come to love from a Clarke novel: playful and deliriously skewed, and somehow balancing between genuinely great-hearted and gloriously weird." --Lauren Groff, author of Arcadia "Brock Clarke has long been one of my favorite writers, and this novel, good lord, is his best one yet. In The Happiest People in the World, Clarke portrays, with terrifying accuracy, the lives of people who constantly ruin things without ever quite understanding why or how, which eventually gives way to a strange kind of invulnerability. There is no writer who does this better than him, creating that wonderful mixture of unexpected, sharp comedy and genuine empathy. The Danes may be the happiest people in the world, but you can easily join those ranks by simply reading this amazing book." --Kevin Wilson, author of The Family Fang "Brock Clarke's The Happiest People in the World is the funniest and smartest novel I have read in years. Set in Broomeville, New York, this madcap adventure mixes small-town teachers, bar keeps, teenagers and fry-cooks with international spies, terrorists, and political refugees. But it is the writing itself that is the true star here, as Clarke delves deep into the hidden and mixed emotions we carry for the ones we love, turning out sentence after sentence that will make you stop to admire its clear, crisp daring and perfect delivery. Yes! I thought, as I read these pages. That's how you write a good book." --Hannah Tinti, author The Good Thief "Like no other writer in contemporary American literature, Brock Clarke has a way of looking at us, I mean looking straight at us--warts, lots of warts, and beauty and hypocrisy and love, too, the gamut. And he's done it again in this brilliant The Happiest People in the World, a novel that is as hilarious and thought-provoking as it is ultimately, deadly, deadly serious. I for one am grateful he's out there--watching our every move." --Peter Orner, author of Esther Stories and Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge, "Brock Clarke's hilarious new novel starts out in rural Denmark, then takes us someplace really foreign and utterly weird: upstate New York. The parallel universe Clarke creates there is both our world and not, and like his baffled, yearning characters, we navigate it with surprise and wonder." -- Richard Russo, author of Elsewhere "Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world." -- Edith Pearlman, author of Binocular Vision "If the literary category of 'mordant fable' exists at all, it may be because Brock Clarke invented it. The Happiest People in the World is everything we fans have come to love from a Clarke novel: playful and deliriously skewed, and somehow balancing between genuinely great-hearted and gloriously weird." -- Lauren Groff, author of Arcadia "Brock Clarke has long been one of my favorite writers, and this novel, good lord, is his best one yet. In The Happiest People in the World , Clarke portrays, with terrifying accuracy, the lives of people who constantly ruin things without ever quite understanding why or how, which eventually gives way to a strange kind of invulnerability. There is no writer who does this better than him, creating that wonderful mixture of unexpected, sharp comedy and genuine empathy. The Danes may be the happiest people in the world, but you can easily join those ranks by simply reading this amazing book." -- Kevin Wilson, author of The Family Fang "Brock Clarke's The Happiest People in the World is the funniest and smartest novel I have read in years. Set in Broomeville, New York, this madcap adventure mixes small-town teachers, bar keeps, teenagers and fry-cooks with international spies, terrorists, and political refugees. But it is the writing itself that is the true star here, as Clarke delves deep into the hidden and mixed emotions we carry for the ones we love, turning out sentence after sentence that will make you stop to admire its clear, crisp daring and perfect delivery. Yes! I thought, as I read these pages. That's how you write a good book. " -- Hannah Tinti, author The Good Thief "Like no other writer in contemporary American literature, Brock Clarke has a way of looking at us, I mean looking straight at us--warts, lots of warts, and beauty and hypocrisy and love, too, the gamut. And he's done it again in this brilliant The Happiest People in the World , a novel that is as hilarious and thought-provoking as it is ultimately, deadly, deadly serious. I for one am grateful he's out there--watching our every move." -- Peter Orner, author of Esther Stories and Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge, "A whiz-bang spy satire bundled in an edgy tale of redemption . . . Clarke dazzles with a dizzying study in extremes, cruising at warp speed between bleak and optimistic, laugh-out-loud funny and unbearable sadness. His comedy of errors is impossible to put down." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "The funniest and smartest novel I have read in years. Yes! I thought, as I read these pages. That's how you write a good book. " -- Hannah Tinti, author The Good Thief "Brock Clarke's hilarious new novel starts out in rural Denmark, then takes us someplace really foreign and utterly weird: upstate New York. The parallel universe Clarke creates there is both our world and not, and like his baffled, yearning characters, we navigate it with surprise and wonder." -- Richard Russo, author of Elsewhere "Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world." -- Edith Pearlman, author of Binocular Vision "If the literary category of 'mordant fable' exists at all, it may be because Brock Clarke invented it. The Happiest People in the World is everything we fans have come to love from a Clarke novel: playful and deliriously skewed, and somehow balancing between genuinely great-hearted and gloriously weird." -- Lauren Groff, author of Arcadia "Brock Clarke has long been one of my favorite writers, and this novel, good lord, is his best one yet. In The Happiest People in the World , Clarke portrays, with terrifying accuracy, the lives of people who constantly ruin things without ever quite understanding why or how, which eventually gives way to a strange kind of invulnerability. There is no writer who does this better than him, creating that wonderful mixture of unexpected, sharp comedy and genuine empathy. The Danes may be the happiest people in the world, but you can easily join those ranks by simply reading this amazing book." -- Kevin Wilson, author of The Family Fang "Like no other writer in contemporary American literature, Brock Clarke has a way of looking at us, I mean looking straight at us--warts, lots of warts, and beauty and hypocrisy and love, too, the gamut. And he's done it again in this brilliant The Happiest People in the World , a novel that is as hilarious and thought-provoking as it is ultimately, deadly, deadly serious. I for one am grateful he's out there--watching our every move." -- Peter Orner, author of Esther Stories and Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge, "A literary first: a book that feels like the love child of Saul Bellow and Hogan's Heroes , full of authorial cartwheels of comedy and profundity." -- GQ "[Clarke knows] how to get a novel off to a snorting good start . . . The Happiest People in the World begins with a raucous bar scene featuring party streamers, smoke, prone bodies, spilled fluids and a stuffed moose with a surveillance camera in its left eye . . . [Clarke has] success in dreaming up oddball originals that have instant appeal." -- Janet Maslin, The New York Times "A whiz-bang spy satire bundled in an edgy tale of redemption . . . Clarke dazzles with a dizzying study in extremes, cruising at warp speed between bleak and optimistic, laugh-out-loud funny and unbearable sadness. His comedy of errors is impossible to put down." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "The funniest and smartest novel I have read in years. Yes! I thought, as I read these pages. That's how you write a good book. " -- Hannah Tinti, author The Good Thief "Brock Clarke's hilarious new novel starts out in rural Denmark, then takes us someplace really foreign and utterly weird: upstate New York. The parallel universe Clarke creates there is both our world and not, and like his baffled, yearning characters, we navigate it with surprise and wonder." -- Richard Russo, author of Elsewhere "[A] dark and funny satire . . . The ridiculous confusion of infidelities, secret identities and double-crosses that plays out reflects the absurdity of any country obsessed with spying on its own people." -- The Wall Street Journal "Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world." -- Edith Pearlman, author of Binocular Vision "If the literary category of 'mordant fable' exists at all, it may be because Brock Clarke invented it. The Happiest People in the World is everything we fans have come to love from a Clarke novel: playful and deliriously skewed, and somehow balancing between genuinely great-hearted and gloriously weird." -- Lauren Groff, author of Arcadia "Brock Clarke has long been one of my favorite writers, and this novel, good lord, is his best one yet. In The Happiest People in the World , Clarke portrays, with terrifying accuracy, the lives of people who constantly ruin things without ever quite understanding why or how, which eventually gives way to a strange kind of invulnerability. There is no writer who does this better than him, creating that wonderful mixture of unexpected, sharp comedy and genuine empathy. The Danes may be the happiest people in the world, but you can easily join those ranks by simply reading this amazing book." -- Kevin Wilson, author of The Family Fang
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