The Age of Happy Problems

Edité par The Dial Press, 1962

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1962 Edition - VERY GOOD in good dust jacket. DJ in protective mylar. Binding is tight and square. No marks in text. . . . . . . . In his 30's, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist Herbert Gold set out some of his impressions of the 1950s, mostly while travelling the wide world looking for what was not Cleveland. He offers the collection again in 1962, to test the validity of history against his predictions. . . a brilliantly ironic and reflective collection of essays and observations about postwar American life?its prosperity, anxieties, and illusions of happiness. This was Gold?s first major nonfiction work, written at a time when America had emerged triumphant from World War II and was deep in the conformist 1950s, poised on the edge of the ?New Frontier.? Through essays and sketches that mix satire with sociological reflection, Gold dissects suburban marriage, middle-class ambition, cultural trends, and the tension between individuality and conformity.Gold?s prose blends novelist?s flair with essayist?s bite?he was part of the same literary generation as Norman Mailer and Saul Bellow, and it shows in his mix of insight and swagger.For a reader in 2025, The Age of Happy Problems remains surprisingly resonant. Its critiques of consumer culture, overwork, and superficial happiness anticipate the social media era?s obsession with curated perfection and endless productivity. The anxieties Gold observed?alienation amid abundance, shallow self-invention, the decline of privacy?echo through modern life. His exploration of ?mass inertia? and ?mass destruction? also mirrors current concerns about technological overload and global instability.In today?s age of digital self-reinvention, Gold?s skepticism about ?creating ourselves in our own image? through consumption feels prophetic.In short, The Age of Happy Problems offers a sharp mirror for both its time and ours: a midcentury diagnosis of modern unease that foreshadows the challenges of identity and meaning in the 21st century.

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Titre
The Age of Happy Problems
Auteur
Herbert Gold
Éditeur
The Dial Press
Année de publication
1962
État de l'article
Very Good
Reliure
Hardback
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