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Search for Happiness
Essay on the nature, meaning and pursuit of happiness. What is means to be happy and how to obtain happiness.
400 pages, Paperback
First published June 26, 1980
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July 19, 2023
This is the funny, addictive and astonishingly dirty saga of the foul-mouthed head writer of a daytime soap, "Search For Happiness", and the actress who becomes a bit too involved in her character's storyline.
I wasn't overly surprised by the ending, because, it really couldn't end any other way. What I did find difficult to believe was that soap audiences in 1980 would've been fascinated by a chastity-vow wrestling nun. Both 'Days of our Lives' & 'Love is a Many Splendored Thing' had tread that territory back in the '60s. I did, however, thoroughly appreciate the line: "Soap viewers want less happiness and more search". They're right; all the searching in this novel brought me lots of happiness.
I wasn't overly surprised by the ending, because, it really couldn't end any other way. What I did find difficult to believe was that soap audiences in 1980 would've been fascinated by a chastity-vow wrestling nun. Both 'Days of our Lives' & 'Love is a Many Splendored Thing' had tread that territory back in the '60s. I did, however, thoroughly appreciate the line: "Soap viewers want less happiness and more search". They're right; all the searching in this novel brought me lots of happiness.
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