Happy are the Happy
Published on 2. July 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-09-958732-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
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 * The author skillfully peels away the veneer of life to reveal the secrets seething within -- Anita Sethi * Observer * A funny, caustic book about how we all think we're so different - when we're painfully similar -- Viv Groskop * Red * Reza has form for nailing relationships in all their joy and ugliness. But she does so with the lightest, sharpest skewer imaginable * Harpers Bazaar * Witty writing and astute observations...a fascinating, yet moving snapshot of the lives of a group of people who are inextricably linked in an intricate web * Irish Examiner * Fascinating, yet moving...poetically and thoughtfully penned * UK Press Association *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
275 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-09-958732-3 (9780099587323)
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Additional editions
Yasmina Reza
Happy are the Happy
E-Book
07/2014
1st Edition
Vintage Digital
€8.99
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Persons
YASMINA REZA is a French playwright and novelist, based in Paris, whose works have all been multi-award-winning, critical and popular international successes. Her plays, Conversations After a Burial, Art, The Unexpected Man, Life x 3 and God of Carnage, have been produced worldwide and translated into thirty-five languages. Her novels include Hammerklavier, Desolation, Adam Haberberg and Dawn, Dusk or Night. Her screenplay, Lulu Kreutz's Picnic, was made into a film directed by Didier Martiny.