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The Pursuit Of Happiness. By Yoni Schwartzman. Published in August of 2015, Yoni Schwartzman’s “The Pursuit of Happiness” contains a dazzling array of poems spanning from the writer’s early formative years (2009-2013) which include A Meaningful Journey and An Idea to his more recent works (2014-2015) such as Morning Rising and Something New. Does the electronic version of the book completely replace the paper version? Of course not. Best of all, if after reading an e-book, you buy a paper version of The Pursuit of Happyness. Read the book on paper - it is quite a powerful experience. The Pursuit of Happyness is a 2006 American autobiographical drama film based on entrepreneur Chris Gardner's nearly one-year struggle being homeless. The plot is based on a true story, yet some scenes were modified and added to the real story. Free download or read online The Pursuit of Happyness pdf (ePUB) book. The first edition of this novel was published in 2006, and was written by Chris Gardner. The book was published in multiple languages including English language, consists of 320 pages and is available in Paperback format.
About the Book. His memoir, Pursuit of Happyness, spends a lot of time recounting that difficult childhood and his transition to the military and to time spent working in medicine. The story picks up more speed two-thirds of the way through when Gardner is living in San Francisco determined to raise his son and succeed as a stockbroker. In the end it is our own decision, our own business. Our own pursuit of happiness in matters. Of daily needs, spirituality, faith, empathy, friendship, freedom, family. I discussed the question with a. Colleague of mine, who stated “eat – enjoy – sleep” would apply to most for the people in the world.
Douglas Kennedy
Hutchinson, £9.99, pp519
REPRESSION is a wonderful thing. It may even be the key to happiness. For while the rest of us wallow in the turbid waters of self-analysis, regret and doubt, the truly repressed scud by on an armoured craft of certainty: wise and faintly smug.
Douglas Kennedy's Manhattan epic, The Pursuit of Happiness , has two narrators. The younger, Kate, is a modern woman who responds to heartbreak the modern way (whisky and sobbing). The elder, Sara, is not. Matter-of-factness personified, Sara maintains WASPish sang-froid even in the face of gore and torment. She may be the ideal companion in an air raid. Her suitability for a tale of death, passion and financial windfalls is another matter.
Mysterious Sara first appears, an elegant Banquo, at the funeral of Kate's mother. She has a secret connection with Kate, and reveals it by giving her a manuscript: the central 400 pages of this novel. It is a story of the Forties and Fifties, of highballs and Remingtons, McCarthyism, civil obedience, and adultery, in this case with Jack, Kate's father, the tangled love of Sara's life.
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Like life, The Pursuit of Happiness is wildly unpredictable. This is its greatest strength. Kennedy is an agile storyteller who excels at surprises, and his characters have varied and exciting lives. It has all the ingredients of an outstanding page-turner - yet, it seems, Kennedy has other plans, and the result is less gripping, less moving and, frustratingly, less worthy of him than it might have been.
Sara appears, with lengthy period scene-setting, at a point where our sympathy lies with Kate. Kate barely knew her father, and so sensible Sara's wartime romance with him is an unwelcome distraction. Unfortunately, for the next 200 pages, this is how Sara remains. She is not a sympathetic heroine. Her first ever story rivals Faulkner and Hemingway, her journalism is legendary, and she's the 'fastest wit in the West'. However, like her comedian brother, she is not actually funny. She is also fantastically repressed. She has lived, beneath the tweed, a racy life, but she is of her time, and 'back then, everyone did their best to avoid frank discussions about anything that was potentially painful'. This is not, thank God, the Fifties, and as jealousy and loss did exist we want to know how their participants felt, whether or not they acknowledged these feelings. However, despite her protestations of emotion, Sara's responses remain relentlessly prosaic.
Even at its most dramatic, the novel is weirdly subdued by Kennedy's narrative technique. He favours wide-angled shots at moments of crisis, when Shaker-style dressers are more annoyance than helpful detail. Both Kate and Sara talk us through every mundane action, always making time to tip cab-drivers liberally before rushing off. Voiceover-style echoey flashbacks and emotional explication leave nothing to the imagination: 'You've never really figured me out, have you?' 'What I want to know, Charlie, is why?' 'You what?' I said, sounding shocked.' This, together with clunky period pointers - 'It was amazing what you could buy with $400 back then'- dubious comparisons of McCarthyism to the Holocaust, and anachronistic-sounding genetic determinism, leave the reader longing to be told less, and guess more.
Despite occasional self-deprecating moments and dry asides, even Kennedy's most vivid characters have a slightly off-the-peg feel. Tough-talking wise-yet-sassy 'broads', Dorothy Parker-style editors and brothers who read quantum mechanics andplay 'a mean boogie-woogie piano' add little, and Sara unfortunately fails to see sense and marry her stevedore lawyer, her only chance for a life of love, self-knowledge and foreign food.
As the lawyer explains, 'to move forward, we must_ come to terms with every damn thing that life throws in our path'. The same, unfortunately, can be said of this novel. Once the tragic revelations accelerate, Kennedy cannot help but write grippingly, and he weaves threads of love and betrayal into a thrillingly masterful ending. Modern novels of private turmoil in a difficult time, from Restoration to Birdsong , work because their protagonists are equal to the events they witness. Kennedy can do millennial messy and Fifties dry, but Sara is merely a mouthpiece for torrents of cool-blooded information: a dull woman in an exciting era, and a sorry foil for her creator's prodigious story-telling talent.
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Published in August of 2015, Yoni Schwartzman’s “The Pursuit of Happiness” contains a dazzling array of poems spanning from the writer’s early formative years (2009-2013) which include A Meaningful Journey and An Idea to his more recent works (2014-2015) such as Morning Rising and Something New. During a span of over 5 years, Yoni not only blossomed into a writer, but as an artist as well. His most prominent works in lighting are his Stained Tree, Hand Lamp, Yogurt Cup Chandelier, and..
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