Happiness and Love: A Novel

ISBN: 166806295X

Author: Dubno, Zoe

Condition: New

One of Vogues Best Books of the YearReading the novel is akin to spending time with a witty if merciless observer of other peoples idiocies. Theres something of a latter-day Holden Caulfield about the narratorit possesses an enlivening, claustrophobic charge. -The SpectatorFollowing a young woman over the course of one outrageous and insufferable downtown dinner party at the home of her estranged best friends-an artist and curator couple, whom she now realizes stands for everything she detests-Happiness and Love is a deliciously scathing (Vogue UK) debut novel about brazen materialism, self-obsession, and the empty careerism of so-called cultural elites.From her perch on the corner of a white sofa, in the beautiful apartment of terrible people, our narrator watches the assembled group of artists, writers, and hangers-on and silently, mercilessly eviscerates them in a nervy and blisteringly funny (The Wall Street Journal) monologue.Told in a single long, savage and hilarious paragraph, this is a novel that can be read in one delicious go (Financial Times): the story of an evening that slowly self-destructs, as the guests sip orange wine and await the arrival of a newly famous actress. When the guest of honor finally does arrive, she sets in motion a disastrous end to the evening, laying bare the depravity and decadence of the hosts empty little lives-a hollowness that the narrator herself knows all too well.