The Year of Perfect Happiness

ISBN-13: 9781574415650 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 192 str.

Becky Adnot-Haynes

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Winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction, 2014.
The sharp-witted stories in Becky Adnot-Haynes's debut collection explore the secret lives of people how they deal with the parts of themselves that they choose not to share with their closest confidants and with the world. A pole-vaulter practices his sport only before dawn. A recently divorced woman signs up for a hallucinogenic drug excursion in the Arizona desert. An uncertain girlfriend goes out into the world wearing a false pregnancy belly.
In "The Year of Perfect Happiness," the universe is recognizable but slightly askew, a world whose corners can be peeled back to reveal the strange and often comic outcomes of acting out your most self-destructive desires."