Happy Hour A Novel Humorous American Literature sanity and the dark corners

sanity and the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire

to the village he remembers as a rural haven of peace and tranquillity

she explores an area that was previously the domain of male writers and brings to it her own unique perceptions

inclusive view of the history of art

Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie

Happy Hour A Novel Humorous American Literature sanity and the dark cornersWith the verve and bite of Ottessa Moshfegh and the barbed charm of Nancy Mitford, this stunning debut about a young ingnue in the big city is as refreshing as gin fizz . . . a wild careening joyride through a hot sultry summer in New York (Rachel Syme, The New Yorker). Isa Epley, all of twenty one years old, is already wise enough to understand that the purpose of life is the pursuit of pleasure. She arrives in New York with her newly blond best