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The Committee on Town Happiness consists of ninety-nine linked stories about disappearing townsfolk. Air balloons are launched to search for the missing, galas proliferate, laws are imposed ad absurdum, and a guerilla group forms as the Committee shapes the future of small-town America in this biting examination of modern bureaucracy.
Alan Michael Parker is the author of two previous novels and seven collections of poems. His awards include three Pushcart Prizes and the 2012 North Carolina Book Award. Professor of English at Davidson College, he also teaches in the Queens University MFA program. He lives in Davidson, North Carolina.
The Committee on Town Happiness consists of ninety-nine linked stories about disappearing townsfolk. Air balloons are launched to search for the missing, galas proliferate, laws are imposed ad absurdum, and a guerilla group forms as the Committee shapes the future of small-town America in this biting examination of modern bureaucracy.
Alan Michael Parker is the author of two previous novels and seven collections of poems. His awards include three Pushcart Prizes and the 2012 North Carolina Book Award. Professor of English at Davidson College, he also teaches in the Queens University MFA program. He lives in Davidson, North Carolina.
Alan Michael Parker is the author of two previous novels and seven collections of poems. His awards include three Pushcart Prizes and the 2012 North Carolina Book Award. Douglas C. Houchens Professor of English at Davidson College, he also teaches in the Queens University M.F.A. program. He lives in Davidson, North Carolina, and can be reached on the web at www.amparker.com
Praise for The Committee on Town Happiness: "Smart and funny and
oddly touching and ravishingly beautiful, The Committee of
Happiness is typical of Alan Michael Parker in effect but sui
generis in form. Some will think of this as a collection of
cutting-edge stories. Some will see it as a kind of pointillist
novel. Whatever. It's a work of narrative genius." --Robert Olen
Butler, author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain "Alan
Michael Parker's inventive and deeply felt novel touches on both
the absurdity and sublimity of small town life. These 99 linked
stories skip from funny to sad and back again with brilliant
economy and deadpan wit." --Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of
Speculation "These 99 stories are 99 percent heartbreaking. The
Committee on Town Happiness is also hilarious, beautiful, bold. I
love Alan Michael Parker's mythic kindness and vision." --Kate
Bernheimer, author of Horse, Flower, Bird
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