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Happy Hour (2020)

di Marlowe Granados

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Fiction. Literature. HTML: �??A wild ride with a brilliantly cocky young protagonist who�??s got the world wrapped around her finger. So propulsive you'll feel like you've been hypnotized.�?� �?? Zoe Whittall, author of The Best Kind of People �??Happy Hour feels like a breathless whisper at six in the morning when it�??s too hot to sleep. Marlowe Granados is a fresh, exciting new voice in fiction, and Happy Hour is a spellbinding début.�?� �?? Amy Jones, author of We�??re All in This Together and Every Little Piece of Me With the verve and bite of My Year of Rest and Relaxation and the whip-smart, wisecracking sensibility of a golden-age Hollywood heroine, Marlowe Granados�??s stunning début brilliantly captures a summer of striving in New York City. Refreshing and wry in equal measure, Happy Hour is an intoxicating novel of youth well spent. Isa Epley is all of twenty-one years old and already wise enough to understand that the purpose of life is the pursuit of pleasure. She arrives in New York City for a summer of adventure with her best friend, one newly blond Gala Novak. They have little money, but that�??s hardly going to stop them from having a good time. In her diary, Isa describes a sweltering summer in the glittering city. By day, the girls sell clothes in a market stall, pinching pennies for their Bed-Stuy sublet and bodega lunches. By night, they weave from Brooklyn to the Upper East Side to the Hamptons among a rotating cast of celebrities, artists, tech entrepreneurs, stuffy intellectuals, and bad-mannered grifters. Money runs ever tighter and the strain tests their friendship as they try to convert their social capital into something more lasting than precarious gigs as au pairs, nightclub hostesses, paid audience members, and aspiring foot-fetish models. Through it all, Isa�??s bold, beguiling voice captures the precise thrill of cultivating a life of glamour and intrigue as she juggles paying her dues with skipping out on the bill. Happy Hour announces a dazzling new talent in Marlowe Granados, whose exquisite wit recalls Anita Loos�??s 1925 classic, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, updated to evoke a recent, golden period of hope and transformation �?? the summer of 2013. A cri de c�?ur for party girls and anyone who has ever felt entitled to an adventure of their own, Happy Hour is an effervescent tonic for the ails of contemporary life. Bespeak Audio Editions brings Canadian voices to the world with audiobook editions of some of the country�??s greatest work… (altro)

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I can easily understand why some readers won't jive with this book, but I personally found it to be a deliciously perfect read to end the summer on. The writing is pretentiously lilting yet direct, the main characters are obnoxiously lovable and mean, and the whole story reads like a cleaned-up, dramatized diary. I adored it all. Granados has SUCH a keen hand at describing the thoughts and antics of women in their early 20s, and even the aspects that were foreign to me (like living in NYC and doing live portrait work) were so well described that I connected to them immediately. The diary thing really works here because I felt as if Isa was my own friend and she was telling me all these stories in person. "Happy Hour" felt like a mix of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "Gossip Girl" with a dash of J.D. Salinger (if Salinger was a fashionably dressed woman living in 2013).

You know how sometimes people (coughmencough) brush off women because they think she's too dumb or too pretty or just too much of a woman to have an intelligent thought, but in reality the woman is like, this incredibly insightful and witty human who happens to have a fashion taste people are too boring to appreciate? That's what "Happy Hour" is: there are always going to be those who read this and brush it off for being silly/repetitive/insert-vague-critical-buzzword-here, but this book is a gem to those who will take the time to actually get to know it. (

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deborahee | Feb 23, 2024 |

”It’s decadent and goes nowhere; you’ll like it.”

^This is the exact description I would give to this book (via a line from the book itself).

Never before have I so wanted to move to New York and wear designer clothes and go to parties every night. Its giving Sex and the City but the characters are 20 instead of 30. (

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willowzz | Jun 27, 2023 |

It would be easy to be dismissive of the party girl lifestyle, but look beneath the surface, there might be a whole lot more to the story. There is. (

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Lindsay_W | Jan 23, 2022 |

Happy Hour is the Bridget Jones' Diary's party girl version. I laughed at the excellent narrative but was made anxious by the uncertainty of the way the girls led their lives. When I was 21 living in Boston not working would never have an option. I did party but not in the style of Isa and Gala. (

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Gingersnap000 | Sep 29, 2021 |

This had a crazy number of excellent lines. You'd expect a novel about stateless young women constantly on the brink of financial ruin and starvation, partying their way through fashionable scenes for meals, to be maudlin. Instead the girls were clever and completely unabashed, and so was the novel. It was full of observations so true they hurt and witticisms that made me chuckle. I loved it. (

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Fiction. Literature. HTML:

�??A wild ride with a brilliantly cocky young protagonist who�??s got the world wrapped around her finger. So propulsive you'll feel like you've been hypnotized.�?� �?? Zoe Whittall, author of The Best Kind of People

�??Happy Hour feels like a breathless whisper at six in the morning when it�??s too hot to sleep. Marlowe Granados is a fresh, exciting new voice in fiction, and Happy Hour is a spellbinding début.�?� �?? Amy Jones, author of We�??re All in This Together and Every Little Piece of Me

With the verve and bite of My Year of Rest and Relaxation and the whip-smart, wisecracking sensibility of a golden-age Hollywood heroine, Marlowe Granados�??s stunning début brilliantly captures a summer of striving in New York City.

Refreshing and wry in equal measure, Happy Hour is an intoxicating novel of youth well spent. Isa Epley is all of twenty-one years old and already wise enough to understand that the purpose of life is the pursuit of pleasure. She arrives in New York City for a summer of adventure with her best friend, one newly blond Gala Novak. They have little money, but that�??s hardly going to stop them from having a good time.

In her diary, Isa describes a sweltering summer in the glittering city. By day, the girls sell clothes in a market stall, pinching pennies for their Bed-Stuy sublet and bodega lunches. By night, they weave from Brooklyn to the Upper East Side to the Hamptons among a rotating cast of celebrities, artists, tech entrepreneurs, stuffy intellectuals, and bad-mannered grifters. Money runs ever tighter and the strain tests their friendship as they try to convert their social capital into something more lasting than precarious gigs as au pairs, nightclub hostesses, paid audience members, and aspiring foot-fetish models. Through it all, Isa�??s bold, beguiling voice captures the precise thrill of cultivating a life of glamour and intrigue as she juggles paying her dues with skipping out on the bill.

Happy Hour announces a dazzling new talent in Marlowe Granados, whose exquisite wit recalls Anita Loos�??s 1925 classic, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, updated to evoke a recent, golden period of hope and transformation �?? the summer of 2013. A cri de c�?ur for party girls and anyone who has ever felt entitled to an adventure of their own, Happy Hour is an effervescent tonic for the ails of contemporary life.

Bespeak Audio Editions brings Canadian voices to the world with audiobook editions of some of the country�??s greatest work

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