Happiness TM
by:
Will Ferguson (author)
When one of those irritating self-help books actually gets it right, then unnatural and worrying times are just around the corner. While the rest of the country is joining the new HappinessTM cult, Edwin (the wiry, grey-suited, low-level editor at U.S. publisher Panderic Press) is in trouble. A...
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When one of those irritating self-help books actually gets it right, then unnatural and worrying times are just around the corner. While the rest of the country is joining the new HappinessTM cult, Edwin (the wiry, grey-suited, low-level editor at U.S. publisher Panderic Press) is in trouble. A cartel of drug, alcohol, tobacco, and drug-rehab bosses have a contract out on him. It's all the fault of the mysterious Tupac Soiree, and his book What I Learned on the Mountain. But who is Tupac? And how can Edwin stop the world from succumbing to this plague of HappinessTM? Will Ferguson has created a comic masterpiece, a brutal satire of modern times
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781841953519 (1841953512)
Publish date: February 15th 2003
Publisher: Canongate UK
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Humor,
Funny,
Comedy,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Self Help,
Contemporary,
Dystopia,
Canada
I enjoyed this read about an editor who accidentally publishes a book that almost brings about the end of the world. Edwin de Valu is a mid-level editor working on the self-help desk. When confronted by his boss looking to replace their in jail best selling author he decides to use a book from t...
I remember buying this book more than I remember reading it, which I suppose says something.
A satire about the self-help books culture in America.Edwin de Valu has a job in publishing. He often sits behind the slush pile to (re)direct the incoming scripts right into the paper basket. Then one morning his boss Léon has an announcement: their personalized goldmine in self-help bo...
books about books that change the world are always interesting to me, and this one can be quite funny. by the end i did start to lose interest and the pacing started to flag but i thought it was an interesting debut novel. have read a few reviews for ferguson's spanish fly, i think i will check it o...
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