The Half-Life of Happiness - Hardcover

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Casey, John

 
9780679409786: The Half-Life of Happiness
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0679409785 ISBN 13: 9780679409786
Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

The winner of the 1989 National Book Award for Spartina presents a tragi-comic novel about two Virginia liberals--a lawyer and an artist--whose marriage collapses under the pressure of an ill-considered congressional campaign. 50,000 first printing. Tour.

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John Casey was born in 1939 in Worcester, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard College, Harvard Law School, and the University of Iowa. His previous novel, Spartina, won the 1989 National Book Award for fiction. He lives with his wife in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he is Professor of English Literature at the University of Virginia.

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ner of the 1989 National Book Award (for Spartina), a major new novel--wise, sad, and richly comic--about the meltdown of a marriage against the backdrop of a gloriously awful congressional campaign. Charlottesville, Virginia, 1978: Mike is a successful forty-something lawyer, a onetime congressional staffer who's had it with Washington; Joss, his wife, is a filmmaker. They're Virginia liberals with a clan of close-knit friends--a bright, edgy, flirty, games-playing group, spinning like a Catherine wheel around Mike and Joss. But the sparks that fly between the two are getting hotter and more dangerous, as Joss' restlessness turns to impatience and then anger. When one of the group introduces them all to the woman he wants to marry, things suddenly explode--this new arrival and Joss fall passionately in love, and their whole world careens out of control. <br><br>What ensues is tragicomedy, as Mike tries to allay his rage and misery by letting himself get sucked into a trial run for a seat in Con

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Verlag
Alfred A. Knopf
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0679409785
ISBN 13 
9780679409786
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Anzahl der Seiten
513
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