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Item specifics

Condition
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Publication Date
1986-06-17
Pages
148
ISBN
9780811209786

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
0811209784
ISBN-13
9780811209786
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1076437

Product Key Features

Book Title
Stories of Happy People
Number of Pages
148 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1986
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), Visionary & Metaphysical, General, Literary
Features
Reprint
Genre
Fiction
Author
Lars Gustafsson
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
0.4 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
85-031052
Dewey Edition
19
Reviews
Lars Gustafsson...loves to play with possibilities and solutions in a manner that is refreshingly affirmative. For those willing to follow his tales to their epiphanic moments, Stories of Happy People offers an intellectual adventure of the highest order.
Dewey Decimal
839.7/374
Edition Description
Reprint
Synopsis
What is happiness in an age of packaged needs and liberated desires? Lars Gustafsson's Stories of Happy People is a collection of ten short fictions that maps the range of contentment, from inner joy to the edges of despair. "Uncle Sven and the Cultural Revolution" finds a politically indifferent Swedish research engineer, in Mao's China as an industrial consultant, surprised by his own imagination. "The Four Railroads of Iserlohn" lead to poignant, illusionary journeyings. The half-felt yearnings of displaced intellectuals, trying to break out of the stasis of their existence, are explored in "The Art of Surviving November," "What Does Not Kill Us, Tends to Make Us Stronger," and "The Fugitives Discover That They Knew Nothing." "A Water Story" is a sketch of the elusive staying power of love. The protected, private universes of the mentally retarded, the insane, and the senile are opened to view in "Greatness Strikes Where It Pleases," "The Bird in the Breast," and "Out of the Pain." In all of these stories, Gustafsson, one of Sweden's leading men of letters and philosophical writer par excellence, places lives of seeming smallness within the wider context of the culture and history of our hapless era.
LC Classification Number
PT9876.17.U8A27 1986

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