Hi everybody! I just finished this book that I have fallen in love with; and because I found a great pleasure and experience while reading, I thought it would be great to share it with everyone. It contains words, images, backgrounds, thoughts and beliefs that I've always wanted to talk about. All of these I have achieved through its portrayal in this novel. The honestly, it's nauseating truthfulness was a pleasant expression to get indulge with.
Spectacular Happiness opens when Chip is named as the chief suspect in a series of anarchist bombings of beachfront trophy homes. Meticulously planned, announced with fireworks, these explosions have caught the public imagination, and the irony is that Chip, now an out-law celebrity, is drawn into the publicly-based culture he is aiming to disrupt. His response: to assemble a memoir of his estranged son, a father's attempt to explain his motivations before the media distorts them.
Chip has splendid allies: Sukey Kuykendahl, an upper class Realtor with weaknesses for alcohol and overbearing men;; Wendy Moro, a self-effacing defense attorney thrust into the limelight; and Manny Abelman, an aging psychotherapist disenchanted with his profession. But it is Chip's own voice that dominates the novel, concerned, searching, painfully aware of the absurd behaviors love can demand.
Darkly intelligent, Spectacular Happiness will alter the way we look both an oversized beach front mansions and the culture that spawns the. the culture Chip calls the society of the spectacle. Provocative, compelling, stunning in its execution, this is the masterful first novel that Kramer's nonfiction has led his readers and reviewers to expect.
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