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“A new erotic classic.” —Scarlet Magazine
“Exquisitely French . . . throbbingly intense.”—Evening Standard
He’s thirty-nine, a writer, dried up and waiting for better days. She’s ten years younger, an arts graduate, not doing anything much. Both married, both bored. Lust at first sight. And so they have sex with each other just about everywhere in just about every way, and their desire increases. They explore every facility available to intensify their excitement. Their erotic journey begins in a hotel room, and ends in a toilet cubicle. Happiness is not a love story.
Denis Robert is a French journalist, novelist, essayist, and film director who is renowned for uncovering political and financial scandals and for his unconventional journalism.
He is a thirty nine years old writer with a wife and three children. She is a reader of his work with a much older husband and his adult son. They meet and are instantly attracted to one another. Since he writes in hotel rooms because they are quiet and her spouse is totally preoccupied with his work, they easily begin a tryst. Both somewhat conceal their real everyday lives from one another while enjoying their fantasy trysts that enable them to escape reality though sexual encounters.
Using the odd numbered pages to tell his side and even numbered pages to tell her side, Happiness is a strange he said, she said look at an affair as each of the leads tell their side on events. None of their trysts last more than a page and a few are left blank. Thus the audience knows almost nothing about the "real" lives of the fantasy lovers. This lack of knowledge reduces the impact as the pair lacks depth beyond their hedonistic encounters. Still different and gimmicky, fans who enjoy an intimate passionate relationship that ironically never truly becomes intimate and compassionate beyond sex will want to read the intriguing look at Happiness.
Harriet Klausner
Overview
“A new erotic classic.” —Scarlet Magazine
“Exquisitely French . . . throbbingly intense.”—Evening Standard
He’s thirty-nine, a writer, dried up and waiting for better days. She’s ten years younger, an arts graduate, not doing anything much. Both married, both bored. Lust at first sight. And so they have sex with each other just about everywhere in just about every way, and their desire increases. They explore every facility available to ...