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The Happiest Days
Short Stories
Author: Cressida Connolly
The Happiest Days
$11.99
About This Book
Book Details
Even happy days come to an end. In this remarkable collection, Cressida Connolly explores the lives of children and young people who find themselves split in two. A conversation on a trip to the zoo heralds the end of a family; a boy watches his father fold Aunt Rose into his arms and loses his vocation; a young girl grows jealous of the attention paid to her dying sister.
Examining familiar emotions--love, loss, jealousy, loneliness--with a fresh eye, The Happiest Days is an exciting, original, startling debut.
Imprint Publisher
Picador
ISBN
9781250086525
In The News
"These affectionate, gracefully styled stories herald the arrival on the literary scene of a talented writer in perfect command of her distinctive prose."—Publishers Weekly
“[Connolly] makes sad, wise sense of the inner lives of children in the process of being robbed of their illusions about the world...Connolly catches them brilliantly...she takes the transition seriously, proving herself to be a breed apart from the garden-variety grown-up.”—Newsday
"A touching debut"—US Weekly
"Poignant reminders of adolescent traumas...these stories are unmissable."—Marie Claire
"Composed, pleasant, stately, always interesting minor neo-classics of the genre."—Kirkus Reviews
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The Happiest Days