Spectacular Happiness
A Novel
$29.99
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
9 July 2002
Summary
A daring, controversial novel that The New York Times hailed as “good fun” and full of “rewarding surprises,” Spectacular Happiness entertains while raising challenging questions about what constitutes the good life. Booklist calls it a “stunning first novel.”
Chip Samuels is an English teacher, part-time handyman, and devoted husband and father. He is also a one-man protest movement. Egged on by an ex-girlfriend, Chip has been blowing up trophy homes along the beaches of Cape Cod. The fastidiously crafted explosions capture the public’s imagination – and rather than being reviled as a terrorist, he finds himself the idealized center of a media circus.
Darkly intelligent, provocative, and compelling, Spectacular Happiness has been praised both as riveting storytelling and as masterful social criticism by one of the most respected observers of contemporary American culture.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780743223249 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0743223241 |
| Author: | Peter D. Kramer |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Scribner |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 9 July 2002 |
| Weight: | 293g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 127mm x 203mm |
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Critics Review
The Seattle TimesThis novel is a feast of big ideas, memorable characters, and heroic actions. It is a phenomenal fiction debut.
The Boston Globe The author of Listening to Prozac makes a fine novelist, telling a gripping story while at the same time commenting on the rich, radicals, politics, corruption, and the media.
Newsweek A serious novel of ideas.
Chicago Tribune A terrific thriller plot…Kramer has a perceptive eye…in the small, telling details he chooses for his portraits.
The Seattle Times This novel is a feast of big ideas, memorable characters, and heroic actions. It is a phenomenal fiction debut.
The Christian Science Monitor The effect is something like reading Jaws from the shark’s point of view….It’s wacky and wicked and brilliant.
Talk Deeply moving.
Providence Journal An elegantly lyrical and provocative first novel.
Peter D. Kramer
Peter D. Kramer is clinical professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University. He is the author of Should You Leave? and the international bestseller Listening to Prozac. He lives and practices in Providence, Rhode Island.
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