Happy Hour
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Narrated by:
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Bronwyn Szabo
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By:
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Marlowe Granados
About this listen
With the verve and bite of My Year of Rest and Relaxation and the wisecracking sensibility of a golden-age Hollywood heroine, Marlowe Granados’s stunning debut 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 21 years old and wise enough to understand that the purpose of life is the pursuit of pleasure. In her diary she chronicles her New York City adventure during the sweltering summer of 2013. By day, Isa and her best friend, Gala, 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 among a rotating cast of celebrities, artists, 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. 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’ 1925 classic, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, updated to evoke a recent, golden period of hope and transformation. A cri de cœur 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.
Marlowe Granados is a writer and filmmaker. She cohosts The Mean Reds, a podcast dedicated to women-led films, and her advice column, 'Designs for Living', appears in The Baffler. After spending time in New York and London, Granados currently resides in Toronto. Happy Hour is her debut novel.
©2021 Marlowe Granados (P)2021 W F HowesListeners also enjoyed...
Critic reviews
"Marlowe Granados's Happy Hour is as refreshing as a gin fizz. It is a wild careening joyride through a hot sultry summer in New York in 2013, and it evokes that time with such sparkling specificity that you can feel the heat coming off the pavement. If you are looking for romance, ambition, glamour, and a story about what it means to be young and striving in the city, this is your song of the summer." (Rachel Syme, New Yorker staff writer)
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- Helen Sun
- 23-01-23
THE NARRATOR’S VOICE NEEDS TO CHANGE
mom usually quite ambivalent but seriously this narrator’s voice is making me hate the novel
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- Amazon Customer
- 17-07-24
If Amelita Amalfi wrote a book
I found the narrator almost intolerable, but at the same time her voice was suitable for the character. I was entertained!
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- Tomasz Kubiak
- 18-07-23
The narrator saves it
I started reading the book, but found it quite borring.
When I switched to the audiobook, I actually got hooked and invested in story. I feel the narrator did a great job with the audiobook. Usually I prefer books that I read by the author, by in this case I thought Bronwyn did a great job.
However, there isn't much plot in there and it isn't really going anywhere
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- nour sarhan
- 27-09-23
def worth it
in the beginning, i almost dropped the book thinking it was going nowhere, but i decided not to because isa and gala were such interesting characters. the more i listened to it the more I got sucked into their world, every second i spent not listening to the book i was thinking about them. as i neared the end, the vision became clearer; i understood where the actual plot line was, and i was so attached to isa (and gala) that it warmed my heart. i loved this book more than i can put into words, and am so looking forward to reading/listening to more of marlowe’s work.
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- Helen L
- 26-02-24
The narrator’s voice is incredibly grating
As per the title. The narration made the audiobook unenjoyable. Story is okay - loved the character, Gala!
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