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A carregar... My American Unhappinesspor Dean Bakopoulos
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Nenhum(a) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. ![]() ![]() Yes, this is actually a laugh-out loud book about unhappiness. Zeke's funding for his Inventory of American Unhappiness Project is running out. In the meantime, while gauging the unhappiness of everyone around him, he ignores his own well-being. Zeke is a likeable narrator that just needs a good waking up to discover the riches that surround him. This is a warm-hearted book that will cheer you up, even as it inventories the unhappiness of America. This is so clearly a case of the wrong book ending up in the wrong hands that I question if I should even write this review. Zeke Pappas, director of the Great Midwestern Humanities Initiative, is working on a special project, a chronicle of American Unhappiness. He spends his days interviewing subjects on what makes them unhappy and his nights caring for his two young neices (his brother died in Iraq and sister-in-law died driving drunk) and his ill mother. When his mother learns she is terminally ill she stipulates that Zeke gets custody of his neices only if he is married before she dies. Desperate, and yes I do mean DESPERATE, to get married, Zeke alternates between the women he is acquianted with attempting to build a relationship that could lead to marriage with one of them. Meanwhile some mysterious branch of the government begins to investigate, in a very sinister way, his work and how he is spending government money. Zeke is so sad, deluded, paranoid, and just plain messed up that I couldn't identify with him at all. If I ever met this man I would run away screaming and never look back. I suppose that's the point of a book like this. Zeke is a charicature of the typically unhappy american. Though the end of the book is meant to be hopeful I just found it depressing. The style was so far from my sense of humor that nothing about it was funny or entertaining. I know others have enjoyed My American Unhappiness, unfortunately it missed the mark for me. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
"Why are you so unhappy?" That's the question that Zeke Pappas, a thirty-three-year-old scholar, asks almost everybody he meets as part of an obsessive project, "The Inventory of American Unhappiness." The answers he receives--a mix of true sadness and absurd complaint--create a collage of woe. Zeke, meanwhile, remains delightfully oblivious to the increasingly harsh realities that threaten his daily routine, opting instead to focus his energy on finding the perfect mate so that he can gain custody of his orphaned nieces. Following steps outlined in a women's magazine, the ever-optimistic Zeke identifies some "prospects": a newly divorced neighbor, a coffeehouse barista, his administrative assistant, and Sofia Coppola ("Why not aim high?"). A clairvoyant when it comes to the Starbucks orders of strangers, a quixotic renegade when it comes to the federal bureaucracy, and a devoted believer in the afternoon cocktail and the evening binge, Zeke has an irreverent voice that is a marvel of lacerating wit and heart-on-sleeve emotion, underscored by a creeping paranoia and made more urgent by the hope that if he can only find a wife, he might have a second chance at life. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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