Happiness and Love

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Deliciously scathing . . . Judgemental yet self-aware, caustic yet warm, Dubno's book will have you yelping in recognition - either at the state of your own friendships (or depending on your lifestyle and bank balance) at the characters on the page. * Vogue * Zingy . . . Told in a single long , savage and hilarious paragraph, Happiness and Love can be gulped in one delicious go. * Financial Times * A gorgeous book on being a hater, and I inhaled this in one sitting. * Stylist * Breathless, damning, funny, elegiac . . . The achievement here is unquestionably substantial. Dubno has managed to write a work of high style that is also a document of real emotion. -- Madeline Cash * The London Magazine * Zeitgeist and timeless, cynical but not soulless, Dubno's propulsive debut is for lovers of Thomas Bernhard, art over theory, and anyone who has ever wondered "What the hell am I doing here?" Fabulous! * Melissa Broder, author of Milk Fed * Exceptionally funny and entertaining. * Katy Hessel, author of The Story of Art Without Men * Zoe Dubno examines character and human relations in the same way an art critic looks at a painting. Digging deeper and deeper into the thoughts behind thoughts, feelings behind feelings and questioning everything, Happiness and Love is an ecstatic performance of heightened perception. * Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick * In Happiness and Love, Zoe Dubno viciously and delightfully skewers the vapid people - the neo-bohemians of the social media age - who masquerade their privilege as creativity. It is bracing and funny and fiercely clever, a first novel of extraordinary confidence and profoundly entertaining wickedness. * Orlando Whitfield, Nero-award listed author of All that Glitters * I loved this astute and hilarious skewering of New York's psuedy cultural elite. Intelligent, relentless, nasty and fun, Happiness and Love is energising, vital and a total joy to read. * Francesca Reece, author of Voyeur * A master class in irony, wit and storytelling, Zoe Dubno's Happiness and Love is one of the most incisive and entertaining novels I've read this year. In a style redolent of Thomas Bernhard but very much her own and zeroing in on a 21st century New York art monster milieu, she manages to capture in every sentence delicious truths about our era that a thousand news articles barely touch. A triumph! * John Keene, winner of the National Book Award *