{"product_id":"happiness-and-love","title":"Happiness and Love","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eExceptionally funny and entertaining\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eKaty Hessel, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Story of Art Without Men\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘An ecstatic performance of heightened perception’ Chris Kraus, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eI Love Dick\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Zeitgeist and timeless, cynical but not soulless. Fabulous!’ Melissa Broder, author of\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eMilk Fed\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYears after escaping her unbearable artworld friends in New York for a new life in London, an unnamed writer finds herself back on the Lower East Side attending a dinner party hosted by Eugene and Nicole – an artist-curator couple – and attended by their pretentious circle. It’s the evening after the funeral of their mutual friend, a failed actress, and if the narrator once loved and admired Eugene and Nicole and their important friends, she now despises them all. Most of all, however, she despises herself for being lured back to this cavernous apartment, to this hollow, bourgeois social set, for a dinner party that isn’t even being thrown in their deceased friend’s honour, but in the honour of an up-and-coming actress who is by now several hours late.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the guests sip at their drinks and await the actress’s arrival, the narrator, from her vantage point in the corner seat of a white sofa entertains herself - and us - with a silent, tender, merciless takedown.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘Bracing and funny and fiercely clever, a first novel of extraordinary confidence and profoundly entertaining wickedness’ Orlando Whitfield, Nero-award listed author of\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eAll that Glitters\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55527462404469,"sku":"9781529930160","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/1ece6479-1cd4-4556-93e3-bf7dcc397bfd.jpg?v=1750698739","url":"https:\/\/goldsborobooks.pro\/products\/happiness-and-love","provider":"Goldsboro Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}