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The Happiest People in the World

Audiobook
Fiction: Fiction / Satire / Political / Humor
Unabridged   8.25 hour(s)
Publication date: 11/04/2014

The Happiest People in the World

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Audio CD ISBN:9781622315123
Digital Download ISBN:9781598878486-pgg

Summary

A wickedly funny and subversive look at America’s basic tenets—under the guise of a political thriller—from the bestselling author of The Arsenist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England.

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Product Description

The absurdity and distortion of reality that made Brock Clarke’s previous two novels so outrageously funny and yet so moving are on full display in his newest offering, The Happiest People in the World. Adapting the format of the political thriller and subverting it to tell his story of innocence corrupted, Clarke has delivered a biting and controversial satire on the American obsession with security and the conspiracies that threaten it.

The Happiest People in the World
is a spy novel like no other spy novel. It’s also a send-up of American culture, and in particular the constant pursuit of individual happiness of the kind that is attainable only at the expense of others. In exploring the contradictions and pitfalls of our national obsession with both “freedom” and “security,” the novel shows us how we constantly subvert our own good intentions—as husbands and wives, as children and parents, as students and teachers, as believers in art and believers in God, as citizens of America and citizens of the world.

Reviews/Praise

“The funniest and smartest novel I have read in years. . . . It is the writing itself that is the true star here. . . . Yes! I thought, as I read these pages. That’s how you write a good book.”
      —Hannah Tinti, author of The Good Thief

“Clarke strikes subversive gold with this rip-roaring satire of espionage thrillers.”
      —Library Journal [March 2015]

Author Bio

BROCK CLARKE is the author of several books including An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England, which was a national bestseller and has appeared in a dozen foreign editions, and Exley, one of Kirkus’s “Top Books of the Year.” He lives in Portland, Maine, and teaches creative writing at Bowdoin College.

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