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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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My American Unhappiness

My American Unhappiness

Bakopoulos, Dean

Paperback

HumorGeneral Fiction

ISBN10: 0547549105
ISBN13: 9780547549101
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: Jul 3 2012
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.84 Width: 5.29 Depth: 8.07
Language: English

Bakopoulos has invented a man for all rainy seasons--a horny, heartbroken cousin of Richard Ford's Frank Bascombe. --Tom Piazza

A winning distraction, a smart entertainment. --New York Times Book Review

A clairvoyant when it comes to the Starbucks orders, a renegade when it comes to bureaucracy, Zeke asks almost everybody he meets, Why are you so unhappy? The answers he receives--a mix of true sadness and absurd complaint--become the core of an obsessive project, The Inventory of American Unhappiness, a project that becomes all the more personally meaningful as he follows steps outlined in a women's magazine on finding the perfect mate. Incisively tapping the voice of one of the most charming--and deluded--narrators to come along in years, Dean Bakopolous captures our zeitgeist with lacerating wit and a big heart, confirming Jonathan Miles's (author of Dear American Airlines) claim that there's no such thing as unhappiness when you're holding a Dean Bakopolous novel.

Hilarious and heartfelt . . . This funny-sad novel seems to take elements of the author's own life . . . and twists them in a funhouse mirror--with delightful results. --NPR

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