My American unhappiness

"Why are you so unhappy?" That's the question that Zeke Pappas, a thirty-three-year-old scholar, asks almost everybody he meets as part of an obsessive project, "The Inventory of American Unhappiness." The answers he receives -- a mix of true sadness and absurd complaint -- create a collage of woe....

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Main Author: Bakopoulos, Dean
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.
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