{"product_id":"happiness-and-love","title":"Happiness and Love","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A nervy and blisteringly funny new novel.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Reading the novel is akin to spending time with a witty if merciless observer of other people's idiocies. There's something of a latter-day Holden Caulfield about the narrator ... it possesses an enlivening, claustrophobic charge.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--The Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFollowing 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-- \u003ci\u003eHappiness and Love \u003c\/i\u003eis a \"deliciously scathing\" (\u003ci\u003eVogue \u003c\/i\u003eUK) debut novel about brazen materialism, self-obsession, and the empty careerism of so-called cultural elites. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom 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\" (\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e) monologue. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Told in a single long, savage and hilarious paragraph,\" this is a novel that can be read \"in one delicious go\" (\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e): 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.","brand":"Zoe Dubno","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53211137310933,"sku":"BS-I6J-062951","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0777\/7170\/2485\/files\/9781668062951-HD.jpg?v=1771282009","url":"https:\/\/www.acornbookshop.com\/products\/happiness-and-love","provider":"Acorn Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}