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Trouble with Happiness : And Other Stories by Tove Ditlevsen (2023, Trade...
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- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- ISBN
- 9781250863102
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Picador
ISBN-10
1250863104
ISBN-13
9781250863102
eBay Product ID (ePID)
8057263750
Product Key Features
Book Title
Trouble with Happiness : and Other Stories
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), Literary
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
6.6 Oz
Item Length
7.9 in
Item Width
5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Ditlevsen can conjure an entire world in just a few words." -- Tabish Khair, The Times Literary Supplement "[Ditlevsen's] legacy endures with this collection of short stories . . . Beautifully crafted." -- Angela Haupt, TIME "Quiet and devastating . . . The stories are simple; the characters ordinary and immensely human. Their motivations are mysterious and subtle, and Ditlevsen is acutely sensitive to the way normal life can wear at their hearts . . . Already renowned for her memoirs, Ditlevsen is now poised to win acclaim as a master of short fiction." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A central work of modern Danish literature." -- Kirkus Reviews "[A] literary titan . . . [Ditlevsen's] terse, unnerving stories peer into the fragility of relationships and the casual epiphanies that gut her characters." -- Oprah Daily (Most Anticipated Books of 2022) "These spare and sparkling stories summon deep wells of emotion without the slightest trace of sentimentality." -- Chloe Schama, VOGUE "These collected short stories show off [Ditlevsen's] astonishingly precise prose." -- Ellen Peirson-Hagger, The New Statesman
Dewey Decimal
839.81372
Table Of Content
Book One: The Umbrella The Umbrella The Cat My Wife Doesn't Dance His Mother Queen of the Night One Morning in a Residential Neighborhood A Nice Boy Life's Persistence Evening Depression Book Two: The Trouble with Happiness The Knife The Method Anxiety The Mother A Fine Business The Bird The Little Shoes The Best Joke Two Women Perpetuation The Trouble with Happiness
Synopsis
The Trouble with Happiness is a powerful new collection of short stories by Tove Ditlevsen, "a terrifying talent" (Parul Sehgal, The New York Times ). A newly married woman longs, irrationally, for a silk umbrella; a husband chases away his wife's beloved cat; a betrayed mother impulsively sacks her housekeeper. Underneath the surface of these precisely observed tales of marriage and family life in midcentury Copenhagen pulse currents of desire, violence, and despair, as women and men struggle to escape from the roles assigned to them and dream of becoming free and happy--without ever truly understanding what that might mean. Tove Ditlevsen is one of Denmark's most famous and beloved writers, and her autobiographical Copenhagen Trilogy was hailed as a masterpiece on republication in English, named a New York Times Best Book of the Year, and lauded for its wry humor, limpid prose, and powerful honesty. The poignant and understated stories in The Trouble with Happiness , written in the 1950s and 1960s and never before translated into English, offer readers a new chance to encounter the quietly devastating work of this essential twentieth-century writer.
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