Are You Happy Now?
  • Published:
    Nov-2012
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    Literary
  • Pages:
    320
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John Lincoln is a book editor miserably ensconced at Pistakee, a dinky Chicago publisher. His overwhelming ambition is to flee the bland, over polite Midwest and land in New York -- where, he imagines, he'll work with real writers; brandish success at his skeptical, patrician East Coast parents; and experience again the glories of a city where, with “every block, every step,” he will find something interesting and exciting.

What he needs is a hot bestseller, and he finds his vehicle in Amy O'Malley, a recent University of Chicago grad who's worked on the school's famous sex survey. With Lincoln's prodding and guidance, Amy writes a sex-filled novel that draws on her experience. Her book indeed opens doors for Lincoln -- but not in the way he imagined. Meanwhile, a professor of happiness studies at a local college blackmails him into publishing his fantastically mundane poetry.

Reminiscent of Richard Russo's Straight Man, Are You Happy Now? is a comic novel about the hard work of understanding what it is you want.
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EDITIONS
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    • First Edition
    • Nov-2012
    • Thomas & Mercer
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1612186718
    • ISBN13: 9781612186719
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    • Nov-2012
    • Amazon Publishing
    • eBook (Kindle)
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    • Nov-2012
    • Brilliance Audio
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1469252287
    • ISBN13: 9781469252285
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    • Nov-2012
    • Brilliance Audio
    • MP3 CD
    • ISBN: 1469252562
    • ISBN13: 9781469252568
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    • Nov-2012
    • Brilliance Audio
    • MP3 CD
    • ISBN: 1469252708
    • ISBN13: 9781469252704
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    • Nov-2012
    • Brilliance Audio
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1469252422
    • ISBN13: 9781469252421
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    • Oct-2016
    • Brilliance Audio
    • MP3 CD
    • ISBN: 1531883931
    • ISBN13: 9781531883935



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