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"I'd like to suffer for love."
In this novel disguised as a collection of vignettes, author Yasmina Reza (by way of translator John Cullen) offers us a brutally honest portrait of all the facets of love, from a couple who argue about cheese, to a doctor who fantasizes about encounters with young men in alleyways, to an elderly man distraught over what will become of his ashes. These are short, loosely conjoined chapters each told with a different point of view; sometimes humorous, sometimes melodramatic, but always emotionally true.
HAPPY ARE THE HAPPY, by its very nature, feels fragmented. Some of the chapters stand on their own, and as such you can view this as a collection; but most need the others to prop them up, and this is where things become tricky. Reza's writing is solid and lyrical; however, as each vignette is told as basically one paragraph, the pages get crowded. I know this may just be a stylistic bias on my part, but the lack of white space leaves little room for pause. Now, in some...
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