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- The Year of Perfect Happiness
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: University of North Texas Press
- Series: Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction
summary
The sharp-witted stories in Becky Adnot-Haynes' 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. "In The Year of Perfect Happiness, Becky Adnot-Haynes puts her smart and funny prose to expert use, patiently delving the radiant mysteries we keep from strangers, from ourselves, from the people we love the most: Our joys and sorrows, our hidden hurts and unforgettable mistakes and untellable secrets, secrets which Adnot-Haynes' excellent stories suggest we want only to be forced to share, craving the moment when we're at last revealed in all our imperfect but stunning humanity."--Matt Bell, author of In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods and judge
Table of Contents
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- Title, copyright, dedication
- pp. i-v
- Acknowledgments
- pp. viii-ix
- Thank You for the ________
- pp. 18-22
- Planche, Whip, Salto
- pp. 23-28
- Rough Like Wool
- pp. 29-55
- A Natural Progression of Things
- pp. 56-75
- The Second Wife
- pp. 114-119
- Velvet Canyon
- pp. 120-137
- The Year of Perfect Happiness
- pp. 138-161
Additional Information
ISBN
9781574415797
Related ISBN(s)
9781574415650
MARC Record
OCLC
897775744
Pages
192
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No