內容簡(jiǎn)介:“My American Unhappiness is a smart, funny, charming novel — an incisive critique of the way we live now, but armed, unlike most contemporary satire, with a big, generous heart. I got addicted to the misadventures of Zeke Pappas. I didn’t want the book to end.” —Dan Chaon, author of Await Your Reply “In Zeke Pappas, Dean Bakopoulos has invented a man for all rainy seasons — a horny, heartbroken cousin of Richard Ford’s Frank Bascombe, telling a long, tall tale of anomie in the heartland.” —Tom Piazza, author of Why New Orleans Matters “If the nature of despair, as Kierkegaard wrote, is to be unaware of itself, then Zeke Pappas is its perfect spokesman: a blithely deluded nebbish whose epic longings — to document the emptiness at the center of American life and to win the heart of Sofia Coppola and / or his local Starbucks barista — propel him into ever more twisted predicaments. There’s no such thing as unhappiness when you’re holding a Dean Bakopoulos novel in your hands.” —Jonathan Miles, author of Dear American Airlines “Vivid as a searchlight gliding across suburban picture windows, My American Unhappiness displays its author’s saddened comic wisdom, as apparently self?effacing as it is marvelously inventive and observant. Dean Bakopoulos is a writer to watch, a novelist to cherish.” —Peter Straub, author of A Dark Matter
作者簡(jiǎn)介:Dean Bakopoulos is the author of the novel Please Don’t Come Back from the Moon, a New York Times Notable Book, and the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is on the faculty at Iowa State University and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.