{"product_id":"this-is-happiness-hardcover","title":"This Is Happiness - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNiall Williams\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE WASHINGTON POST\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eREAL SIMPLE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA profound and enchanting new novel from Booker Prize-longlisted author Niall Williams about the loves of our lives and the joys of reminiscing. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou don't see rain stop, but you sense it. You sense something has changed in the frequency you've been living and you hear the quietness you thought was silence get quieter still, and you raise your head so your eyes can make sense of what your ears have already told you, which at first is only: \u003c\/i\u003esomething has changed. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe rain is stopping. Nobody in the small, forgotten village of Faha remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard was a condition of living. Now--just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of electricity--it is stopping. Seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe is standing outside his grandparents' house shortly after the rain has stopped when he encounters Christy for the first time. Though he can't explain it, Noel knows right then: \u003ci\u003esomething has changed\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is the story of all that was to follow: Christy's long-lost love and why he had come to Faha, Noel's own experiences falling in and out of love, and the endlessly postponed arrival of electricity--a development that, once complete, would leave behind a world that had not changed for centuries. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNiall Williams' latest novel is an intricately observed portrait of a community, its idiosyncrasies and its traditions, its paradoxes and its inanities, its failures and its triumphs. Luminous and otherworldly, and yet anchored with deep-running roots into the earthy and the everyday, \u003ci\u003eThis Is Happiness \u003c\/i\u003eis about stories as the very stuff of life: the ways they make the texture and matter of our world, and the ways they write and rewrite us.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNiall Williams was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of nine novels including \u003ci\u003eHistory of the Rain \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eFour Letters of Love, \u003c\/i\u003efor which he has recently completed the screenplay. Mark Rylance (\u003ci\u003eBridge of Spies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Dunkirk\u003c\/i\u003e) will star and Kevin Loader (\u003ci\u003eThe Death of Stalin\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNowhere Boy\u003c\/i\u003e) will produce. He lives in Kiltumper in County Clare. niallwilliams.co\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 9.3 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 03, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51989183725869,"sku":"9781635574203","price":28.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/OE9pNnpGbWpYK1dkUjhZYUttYkxWQT09.webp?v=1776243042","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/this-is-happiness-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}