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  Title

  Often I am happy : a novel First edition.

  Author

  Grøndahl, Jens Christian, 1959-  

  Publisher:

  Twelve,

  Pub date:

  2017.

  Description:

  169 pages ;

  ISBN:

  1455570079

  Item info:

  2 copies currently available - Tuckahoe Library and Libbie Mill Library.
  

  Number of holds:

  0

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    Gayton Library
    	Copy	Format	Location
    FICTION GRONDAH	1	Adult book	Missing (nocirc)
    Libbie Mill Library
    	Copy	Format	Location
    FICTION GRONDAH	1	Adult book	Adult fiction
    Tuckahoe Library
    	Copy	Format	Location
    FICTION GRONDAH	1	Adult book	Adult fiction

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  Often I am happy : a novel First edition.
  Grøndahl, Jens Christian, 1959-
  
  
  

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  Often I am happy : a novel First edition.
  Grøndahl, Jens Christian, 1959-
  

  Personal Author:

  Grøndahl, Jens Christian, 1959-

  Title:

  Often I am happy : a novel / Jens Christian Grøndahl ; translated by the author.

  Edition:

  First edition.

  Publication Info:

  New York : Twelve, 2017.

  Physical descrip:

  169 pages ; 20 cm

  Summary:

  "This elegant and nuanced literary gem explores the intricacies of friendship, secrets, and two marriages, for fans of The Dinner and Dept. of Speculation. "Often I am happy and yet I want to cry; For no heart fully shares my joy."--B.S. Ingemann Ellinor is seventy. Her husband Georg has just passed away, and she is struck with the need to confide in someone. She addresses Anna, her long-dead best friend, who was also Georg's first wife. Fully aware of the absurdity of speaking to someone who cannot hear her, Ellinor nevertheless finds it meaningful to divulge long-held secrets and burdens of her past: her mother's heartbreaking pride; Ellinor's courtship with her first husband; their seemingly charmed friendship with Anna and Georg; the disastrous ski trip that shattered the two couples' lives. Wry and mellow yet infused with subdued emotion, this philosophical, lyrical novel moves in parallel narrative threads while questioning the assumptions we cherish concerning identity and love"-- Provided by publisher.

  Held by:

  GAYTON TUCKAHOE LIBBIEMILL

  Personal subject:

  Grindahl, Jens Christian, 1959- --Translations into English.

  Subject term:

  Widows--Fiction.

  Subject term:

  Friendship--Fiction.

  Subject term:

  Adultery--Fiction.