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Spectacular Happiness
A daring, controversial novel that The New York Times hailed as "good fun" and full of "rewarding surprises," Spectacular Happiness entertains while raising challenging questions about what constitutes the good life. Booklist calls it a "stunning first novel."
Chip Samuels is an English teacher, part-time handyman, and devoted husband and father. He is also a one-man protest movement. Egged on by an ex-girlfriend, Chip has been blowing up trophy homes along the beaches of Cape Cod. The fastidiously crafted explosions capture the public's imagination -- and rather than being reviled as a terrorist, he finds himself the idealized center of a media circus.
Darkly intelligent, provocative, and compelling, Spectacular Happiness has been praised both as riveting storytelling and as masterful social criticism by one of the most respected observers of contemporary American culture.
Chip Samuels is an English teacher, part-time handyman, and devoted husband and father. He is also a one-man protest movement. Egged on by an ex-girlfriend, Chip has been blowing up trophy homes along the beaches of Cape Cod. The fastidiously crafted explosions capture the public's imagination -- and rather than being reviled as a terrorist, he finds himself the idealized center of a media circus.
Darkly intelligent, provocative, and compelling, Spectacular Happiness has been praised both as riveting storytelling and as masterful social criticism by one of the most respected observers of contemporary American culture.
Book Details
- Publisher: Scribner Book Company
- Publish Date: Jun 6th, 2002
- Pages: 320
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.12in - 5.36in - 0.65in - 0.72lb
- EAN: 9780743223249
- Categories: • Literary• Thrillers - General
About the Author
Kramer, Peter D.: - Peter D. Kramer is a psychiatrist and faculty member of Brown Medical School specializing in the area of clinical depression
Praise for this book
The Christian Science Monitor The effect is something like reading Jaws from the shark's point of view....It's wacky and wicked and brilliant.
The Boston Globe The author of Listening to Prozac makes a fine novelist, telling a gripping story while at the same time commenting on the rich, radicals, politics, corruption, and the media.
Newsweek A serious novel of ideas.
The Seattle Times This novel is a feast of big ideas, memorable characters, and heroic actions. It is a phenomenal fiction debut.
Chicago Tribune A terrific thriller plot...Kramer has a perceptive eye...in the small, telling details he chooses for his portraits.
Talk Deeply moving.
Providence Journal An elegantly lyrical and provocative first novel.