Happy Place

ISBN: 978-0593441275

Год издания: 2023

Язык: Английский

Твёрдый переплёт, 400 страниц.

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ANNIE BERKE, THE WASHINGTON POST

"Henry covers new territory. It is, in many ways, the least 'happy' of her works, less swooning and more longing, with a sense of melancholy permeating throughout ... Most of Henry's books focus on two characters, but this ensemble piece presents female friendship in all its warmth and woundedness, blessedly absent of misogynist tropes of jealousy and pettiness. Admittedly, Sabrina, Cleo and their counterparts don't come through as sharply as the two leads, their motives mostly a mystery until the final chapters ... The core of the novel is, without question, the ballad of Harriet and her ex-fiancé, Wyn. The novel is structured in flashbacks that detail their initial attraction, their mutual devotion and the sudden, shattering breakup that devastates them both ... Henry operates at the top of her — and her readers' — intelligence, telling sophisticated, heartfelt stories that are conscious of the romantic comedy conventions without being overly meta about them ... Happy Place is funny at points, but it is also the closest that Henry has come to writing an old-school melodrama, a heart-rending plot that struggles to express the inexpressible."