{"product_id":"the-happiest-people-in-the-worldbooks","title":"The Happiest People in the World","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e“[A] dark and funny satire . . . Infidelities, secret identities and double-crosses . . . Reflects the absurdity of any country obsessed with spying on its own people.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Take the format of a spy thriller, shape it around real-life incidents involving international terrorism, leaven it with dark, dry humor, toss in a love rectangle, give everybody a gun, and let everything play out in the outer reaches of upstate New York--there you have an idea of Brock Clarke’s new novel. Filled with wonder and anger in almost equal parts,\u003ci\u003eThe Happiest People in the World\u003c\/i\u003e is a ripped-from-the-headlines tale of paranoia and the all-American obsession with security and the conspiracies that threaten it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A literary first: a book that feels like the love child of Saul Bellow and \u003ci\u003eHogan’s Heroes, \u003c\/i\u003efull of authorial cartwheels of comedy and profundity.” —\u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eThe Happiest People in the World\u003c\/i\u003e begins with a raucous bar scene featuring party streamers, smoke, prone bodies, spilled fluids and a stuffed moose with a surveillance camera in its left eye . . . [Clarke has] success in dreaming up oddball originals that have instant appeal.” —Janet Maslin,\u003ci\u003e The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “[Clarke] creates books that taste like delicious cuts of absurdity marbled with erudition.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A whiz-bang spy satire bundled in an edgy tale of redemption . . . His comedy of errors is impossible to put down.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly, \u003c\/i\u003estarred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A darkly hilarious novel . . . The writing is clever, the dialogue snappy and understated, and the effect is as pleasantly unsettling as anything Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ever wrote.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Portland Sun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A zany and fast-paced book that explores the myriad ways people of all nations make themselves and others unhappy.” —\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune, \u003c\/i\u003ePrinter’s Row\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Ranks among the funniest and most relevant social satires I’ve read . . . It might just make you the happiest reader in the world.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Dallas Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Clarke, Brock","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":44722628034784,"sku":"","price":9.6,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_443ecacb-010b-434b-8b8b-36e7b4bcd1cc.jpg?v=1706800697","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/the-happiest-people-in-the-worldbooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}