"The last time I talked to my mother, she announced that she hated my father."
So begins Brian Fawcett’s compelling new book about happiness and a new way of looking at family.
A public intellectual who will shame the devil in the interests of truth, Brian Fawcett has staunchly refused to buy into the prevailing techno-corporate ethos that defines our culture today. WithHuman Happiness, Fawcett has taken another leap into unexplored territory. Where previously Fawcett has explored such topics as globalization and the role of the media, this time he turns the lens inward to search for the meaning of happiness by examining the mysteries of marriage and family.
Featuring prose that is often painfully candid and frequently laugh-out-loud funny,Human Happinessis a story-driven narrative centered around the seemingly happy marriage between Fawcett’s parents, about how familiesreallywork (or don’t), about the intergenerational conflicts that seem inevitable between headstrong fathers and sons, and how old hostilities can poison and distort through generations and – in extraordinary cases – can be resolved.
For 25 years now, Brian Fawcett has been Canada’s most unconventional writer and public intellectual, a man Paul Quarrington described as our literature’senfant terribleandeminence grisrolled into one. His true gift is for making readers laugh while raising the most fundamental questions that face us. He might be Canada’s most original writer.
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Brian Fawcett is the author of more than twenty books. He is a past editor ofBooks in Canada, a former columnist for the Globe and Mail, has written articles and reviews for most of Canada’s major newspapers and magazines, and is a founding editor of the internationally followed Internet news service, www.dooneyscafe.com. Fawcett was born and raised in Prince George, B.C. and now lives in Toronto.
“...Fawcett delivers a redemption that opens itself to every one of us. I cried when I finished Human Happiness. And then I read it again.”
(Barbara Gowdy, author of Helpless and The White Bone)“To remember such an incident and recall it in such plain and serviceable language is a light shining in the darkness.”
(National Post)“This is a funny, intimate and honest story of painfully real people who lived with as much fulfilment as most human beings ever expect or hope for.”
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