The Trouble with Bliss

by Douglas Light

Overview

Now an acclaimed independent film starring Michael C. Hall, Lucy Liu, and Peter Fonda.

The Trouble with Bliss is about 35-year-old Morris Bliss, who is clamped in the jaws of New York City inertia: he wants to travel but has no money; he needs a job but has no prospects; he still shares an apartment with his widowed father; and perhaps worst of all the premature death of his mother still lingers and has left him emotionally walled up. When he finds himself wrapped up in an awkward relationship with the sexually precocious, 18-year-old daughter of a former classmate, Morris quickly discovers his static life unraveling and opening up in ways that are long overdue.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940033069569
Publisher:	Douglas Light
Publication date:	02/22/2012
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	273 KB

About the Author

Douglas Light is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter, and short story writer. His novel The Trouble with Bliss (formerly East Fifth Bliss) won the 2007 Benjamin Franklin Award for Fiction. He co-wrote the screen adaption, which stars Michael C. Hall, Lucy Liu, and Peter Fonda. His story collection, Girls in Trouble, won the 2010 AWP Grace Paley Prize. His stories have appeared in the O. Henry Prize Stories and Best American Nonrequired Reading anthologies as well as Narrative, Guernica, The Alaska Quarterly Review, Failbetter and other magazines.

Editorial Reviews

"Set on New York's Lower East Side, this first novel by Light (founding editor, Epiphany) introduces Morris Bliss, 35 years old and living with his widowed father. Morris has big dreams of traveling all over the world. Unfortunately, he doesn't have a job or the means to take his aspirations beyond a collection of travel brochures and pushpins in a map on his bedroom wall. This fun read boasts a likable protagonist, other quirky and interesting characters, and vivid and humorous descriptions of New York while also providing some significant social commentary. The scene in which Morris and a former high school classmate (and father of the 18-year-old girl with whom Morris is sleeping) storm a vacant building in the middle of the night to roust out a group of homeless squatters is both funny and disturbing. Recommended for large public libraries with an interest in new and unknown authors." - Library Journal

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