Happy are the Happy
Yasmina Reza author Sarah Ardizzone translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:2nd Jul '15
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
1 novel. 18 people. 18 lives.
Infinite combinations: families and friends, colleagues and patients, lovers and mourners... But sometimes a crowd is the loneliest place to be.
An award-winning exploration of dreams and disillusionment, love and infidelity from the creator of global theatre sensation Art and God of Carnage.
Fast becoming the hit of the summer... At times it's darkly comic, but there's loss and heartbreak, too -- Laurel Ives * Style, Sunday Times *
Reza has a sketch artist's ability to create pictures and atmosphere with a few careful strokes... Bittersweet, yet beautiful to read * Daily Mail *
She has a superpower for zeroing in on each beat of an argument, each buried emotion... Moments of simple joy stand out from the vividly awkward domestic tussles that surround them * The Times *
Sharply observant wit...a rather particular delight...the mistress of subtle detail -- Louise Jury * Independent *
Happy are the Happy is a spiky, brilliantly observed novel about marriage, infidelity, dreams and disillusion * Stella Magazine, Sunday Telegraph *
ISBN: 9780099587323
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 15mm
Weight: 169g
224 pages