Happiness [Hardcover]

Will Ferguson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 3, 2002

Will this book help you give up smoking? Tell you how to lose those extra pounds? Help you attain inner peace, or improve your sex life? Nah. But it will answer the following questions ...Why would a cartel of drug, alcohol, tobacco and drug-rehab directors have a contract out on Edwin de Valu? (Edwin - the wiry, grey-suited, low-level editor at New York publisher Panderic Press). Why has rage disappeared from the roads and McDonalds gone all alfalfa? How come everyone seems so bloody happyTM? What does it have to do with an epic drunken encounter with Oliver Reed? And, most importantly, who, or what, is Tupac Soiree? When one of those irritating self-help books actually gets it right, then unnatural and worrying times are just around the corner. Here - in a brilliant parody of the lowest form of 'fadism' - Will Ferguson sets out a hysterical, thought-provoking image of a world where the mantra 'Live! Love! Learn!' is on everyone's (smiling) lips.

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Review

In this hilarious satire, acclaimed writer Will Ferguson describes what might happen if a "cure-all" self-help book actually worked.

About the Author

Will Ferguson is the author of several books, including the critically acclaimed travel memoir Hokkaido Highway Blues (Canongate), as well as The Hitchhiker's Guide to Japan and the controversial cultural critique Why I Hate Canadians. His first three books were plucked from the slush pile. Will lives in Calgary, in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 309 pages
• Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd (March 3, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1841952338
• ISBN-13: 978-1841952338
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.5 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,298,596 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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