What you want, or, The pursuit of happiness
Phipps, Constantine2014
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Patrick is still in love with his wife from whom he is separated. Returning with their son after a trip to an amusement park, he begs, one last time, to reconcile with her. When she refuses, he is driven to thoughtless desperation: a bottle of sleeping pills, a bottle of whisky. And in his dying dream, he revisits that theme park of childish desire. There he finds the landscape - still garish and indulgent - has evolved. The attractions are religion, money and sex. The characters - costumed and acted - are transformed into Jefferson, Xunzi, Aristotle. And their purpose is to instruct Patrick in the pursuit of happiness throughout human history. But Patrick can only answer with his own story.
Main title:
What you want, or, The pursuit of happiness / Constantine Phipps.
Author:
Phipps, Constantine, author
Imprint:
London : Quercus, 2014.
Collation:
ix, 310 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781848664340 (hbk)9781848664364 (ebook)
Dewey class:
823.9'2
LC class:
PR6116
Language:
English
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BRN:
1779516
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