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Happy are the Happy

Happy are the Happy

by Sarah Ardizzone (Translator), Yasmina Reza (Author)

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    Hardcover 2014

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Synopsis

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.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 224
 Publisher: Harvill Secker
Published: 03 Jul 2014
ISBN 10: 184655800X
ISBN 13: 9781846558009
Book Overview: An award-winning exploration of dreams and disillusionment, love and infidelity from the creator of global theatre sensation Art and God of Carnage.

Media Reviews
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
Author Bio
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.