Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Happiness, as Such

Minna Zallman Proctor

4/5 ( ratings)

At the heart of Happiness, as Such is an absence—an abyss that pulls everyone to its brink—created by a family’s only son, Michele, who has fled from Italy to England to escape the dangers and threats of his radical political ties. This novel is part epistolary: his mother writes letters to him, nagging him; his sister Angelica writes, missing him; so does Mara, his former lover, telling him about the birth of her son who may be his own. Left to clean up Michele’s mess, his family and friends complain, commiserate, tease, and grieve, struggling valiantly with the small and large calamities of their interconnected lives.

Natalia Ginzburg’s most beloved book in Italy and one of her finest achievements, Happiness, as Such is an original, wise, raw, comic novel that cuts to the bone.

Language: English

Pages: 176

Format: Paperback

Publisher: New Directions

Release: June 25, 2019

ISBN: 0811227995

ISBN 13: 9780811227995

Happiness, as Such

Minna Zallman Proctor

4/5 ( ratings)

At the heart of Happiness, as Such is an absence—an abyss that pulls everyone to its brink—created by a family’s only son, Michele, who has fled from Italy to England to escape the dangers and threats of his radical political ties. This novel is part epistolary: his mother writes letters to him, nagging him; his sister Angelica writes, missing him; so does Mara, his former lover, telling him about the birth of her son who may be his own. Left to clean up Michele’s mess, his family and friends complain, commiserate, tease, and grieve, struggling valiantly with the small and large calamities of their interconnected lives.

Natalia Ginzburg’s most beloved book in Italy and one of her finest achievements, Happiness, as Such is an original, wise, raw, comic novel that cuts to the bone.

Language: English

Pages: 176

Format: Paperback

Publisher: New Directions

Release: June 25, 2019

ISBN: 0811227995

ISBN 13: 9780811227995

More books from Minna Zallman Proctor

Belief or Nonbelief?

3.7/5 ( ratings)

These Possible Lives

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Landslide: True Stories

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?