H(a)ppy
Title | H(a)ppy |
Year for Search | 2017 |
Authors | Barker, Nicola(b. 1966) |
Date Published | 2017 |
Publisher | Heinemann |
Place Published | London |
Keywords | English author, Female author, South African author |
Annotation | A woman lives in a future world where “Excess of Emotion” is to be avoided; one must always be “In Balance” and is being constantly adjusted chemically to stay that way. The woman experiences a glitch in her conditioning that leads her to experience emotion, pain, and so forth. Typographically complex. The author says that the book “is best enjoyed in conjunction with Agustin Barrios: The Complete Historical Guitar Recordings 1913-1942. |
Info Notes | In the title and throughout the text the a in parentheses is in red. |
Title Note | Commonly cited as Happy. |
Holding Institutions | CU-B |
Author Note | The female author (b. 1966) was born and lives in England but spent her childhood in South Africa. |
Full Text | 2017 Barker, Nicola (b. 1966). H(a)ppy. London: William Heinemann. CU-B A woman lives in a future world where “Excess of Emotion” is to be avoided; one must always be “In Balance” and is being constantly adjusted chemically to stay that way. The woman experiences a glitch in her conditioning that leads her to experience emotion, pain, and so forth. Typographically complex. The author says that the book “is best enjoyed in conjunction with Agustin Barrios: The Complete Historical Guitar Recordings 1913-1942. The female author was born and lives in England but spent her childhood in South Africa. |