"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Bakopoulos has invented a man for all rainy seasons a horny, heartbroken cousin of Richard Ford s Frank Bascombe. Tom Piazza
A winning distraction, a smart entertainment. New York Times Book Review
A clairvoyant when it comes to the Starbucks orders, a renegade when it comes to bureaucracy, Zeke asks almost everybody he meets, Why are you so unhappy? The answers he receives a mix of true sadness and absurd complaint become the core of an obsessive project, The Inventory of American Unhappiness, a project that becomes all the more personally meaningful as he follows steps outlined in a women s magazine on finding the perfect mate. Incisively tapping the voice of one of the most charming and deluded narrators to come along in years, Dean Bakopolous captures our zeitgeist with lacerating wit and a big heart, confirming Jonathan Miles s (author of Dear American Airlines) claim that there s no such thing as unhappiness when you re holding a Dean Bakopolous novel.
Hilarious and heartfelt . . . This funny-sad novel seems to take elements of the author s own life . . . and twists them in a funhouse mirror with delightful results. NPR
[author photo]
Dean Bakopoulos, the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts grant, teaches creative writing and literature at Grinnell College and in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. His first novel, Please Don t Come Back from the Moon, was a New York Times Notable Book.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
Book Description Condition: New. . Seller Inventory # 52GZZZ00CXCN_ns
Book Description Condition: New. . Seller Inventory # 5AUZZZ000FK6_ns
Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. Seller Inventory # ABE-7936772577
Book Description Condition: New. Buy with confidence! Book is in new, never-used condition 0.9. Seller Inventory # bk0547549105xvz189zvxnew
Book Description Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. My American Unhappiness 0.59. Book. Seller Inventory # BBS-9780547549101
Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 16654810-n
Book Description Condition: New. New! This book is in the same immaculate condition as when it was published 0.9. Seller Inventory # 353-0547549105-new
Book Description Soft Cover. Condition: new. This item is printed on demand. Seller Inventory # 9780547549101
Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # ABLIING23Feb2416190024467
Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # I-9780547549101