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Happy Days: A Novel Audiobook

By: Laurent Graff
Happy Days: A Novel Audiobook, by Laurent Graff Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Bronson Pinchot Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 1.17 hours at 1.5x Speed 0.88 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: February 2009 Format: Unabridged Audiobook Delivery: Instant Download ISBN: 9781481539777
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Total Audiobook Chapters:

12

Longest Chapter Length:

10:41 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

05:50 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

09:16 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

What kind of man buys his grave at the age of eighteen and chooses to spend the rest of his life in a rest home at thirty-five? Meet Antoine, the curious hero of Laurent Graff’s Happy Days, an odd young man who somewhat prematurely acquiesces to his terminal destiny. 

The ultimate fatalist, Antoine decides to play hooky from life by retiring to the Happy Days Retirement Home. Despite the pronounced difference in age, the residents accept him, and he quickly settles into a routine as the life of the party, the sex toy of the nurses, and the best friend of an Alzheimer’s patient called Al. It’s a carefree life, until the arrival of a dying woman with whom Antoine forms a close bond and goes on a very special journey.

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"Ik vond dit boek heel fijn. vooral het einde."

— Margriet (4 out of 5 stars)

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  • “Within the bizarre course of one man's life, Graff poses some of life’s most basic philosophical questions, making this short, briskly paced novel a thought-provoking pleasure.”

    — Booklist

  • “There is a little bit of Merlin in Graff, or Mary Poppins. This novel is supercalifragilistic.”

    — Marie-France

  • “Narrator Bronson Pinchot is a solid choice to portray the larger-than-life persona that is Antoine. Calling for empathy from the listener, Pinchot’s voice is at once personable and oddly heroic, that of an ordinary man living out an extraordinary existence that many listeners will surely have longed for.”

    — AudioFile

  • “Moments of gorgeous prose leaven a sharp, dark and very French quasi-comedy about a man whose life revolves around death.”

    — Publishers Weekly

Happy Days Listener Reviews

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  • Overall Performance: 3 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 5

    " A 35 yr old man decides to join the aged at a rest home and live out his days. Odd, silly, and humorous at times but a 2 1/2 rating.. "

    — Barb, 12/6/2013
  • Overall Performance: 1 out of 51 out of 51 out of 51 out of 51 out of 5

    " I picked it up on a whim. I knew nothing about it, but it seemed interesting. 1 star because I actually finished. "

    — Stacey, 9/20/2013
  • Overall Performance: 2 out of 52 out of 52 out of 52 out of 52 out of 5

    " Paint-by-numbers storytelling. This one's concept leads it around by the nose, and most everything feels forced, uninspired. I gave up halfway through. I hoped it might be a little like Jean-Philippe Toussaint's masterly Monsieur--no such luck. "

    — Adam, 2/9/2013
  • Overall Performance: 3 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 5

    " An interesting yet often depressing, quick read. "

    — Alex, 4/7/2011
  • Overall Performance: 1 out of 51 out of 51 out of 51 out of 51 out of 5

    " I picked it up on a whim. I knew nothing about it, but it seemed interesting. 1 star because I actually finished. "

    — Stacey, 9/20/2010
  • Overall Performance: 2 out of 52 out of 52 out of 52 out of 52 out of 5

    " Paint-by-numbers storytelling. This one's concept leads it around by the nose, and most everything feels forced, uninspired. I gave up halfway through. I hoped it might be a little like Jean-Philippe Toussaint's masterly Monsieur--no such luck. "

    — Adam, 7/26/2010
  • Overall Performance: 3 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 5

    " A 35 yr old man decides to join the aged at a rest home and live out his days. Odd, silly, and humorous at times but a 2 1/2 rating.. "

    — 6/14/2008

About Laurent Graff

Laurent Graff was born in 1968. Happy Days, his first novel to be published in English, was awarded the Prix Millepages. He lives on the outskirts of Paris.

About Bronson Pinchot

Scott Brick, an acclaimed voice artist, screenwriter, and actor, has performed on film, television, and radio. He attended UCLA and spent ten years in a traveling Shakespeare company. Passionate about the spoken word, he has narrated a wide variety of audiobooks. winning won more than fifty AudioFile Earphones Awards and several of the prestigious Audie Awards. He was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine and the Voice of Choice for 2016 by Booklist magazine.