Happiness

Written by:
Will Ferguson
Narrated by:
Jim Frangione

Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
3
Narrator
1
Release Date
May 2009
Duration
12 hours 0 minutes
Summary
This biting satire won Canadian author Will Ferguson the prestigious Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction as well as a Leacock Medal for Humour. Lowly editor Edwin de Valu's life moves at a pretty humdrum pace, until he discovers the manuscript for Tupak Soiree's book on his desk. This self-help tome is different-it actually works. And soon the world turns upside down thanks to the advice of this mysterious guru. 'Gleefully nasty. If Mel Brooks set The Producers in the publishing industry, he'd come up with something like this.'-Kirkus Reviews
Browse By Category
Reviews
Profile Avatar
Ted S.

I enjoyed the cynical discourses on a wide range of topics and the use of foreign languages to introduce one-word concepts not having an exact English translation throughout the book. These untranslatables and Latin phrases in the audio were correct as far as I could follow. Edwin's ennui early in the audio was contagious. I almost stopped listeneing to it. I glad I didn't. The crusty drifter who was Edwin's self-taught intellectual equal was an unexpected payoff and the impending decline of civilization sprung from the banal beginning of the book almost seemed believable---at least I was able to suspend disbelief and enjoy the plot resolution. I enjoyed the reader's ability to bring the disparate characters to life and deadpan his way through the theater of the absurd.

1 book added to cart
Subtotal
$24.99
View Cart