One More Theory about Happiness

"In these lyrical, searing pages, Guest manages to break our hearts and put them back together again."
--Ann Hood

In the tradition of Lucy Grealy's Autobiography of a Face, One More Theory About Happiness is a bold and original memoir from the acclaimed, Whiting Award-winning poet Paul Guest, author of My Index of Horrifying Knowledge. A remarkable account of the accident that left him a quadriplegic, and his struggle to find independence, love, and a life on his own terms, One More Theory About Happiness has been praised by Charles Bock, author of Beautiful Children, as, "Smart and honest and clear eyed and above all, humane."

Author: Paul Guest
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 05/03/2011
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 8.05h x 5.33w x 0.52d
ISBN: 9780061685187

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 07/03/2011 pg. 24

About the Author
Guest, Paul: -

Paul Guest is the author of three poetry collections, The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World, which won the 2002 New Issues Prize in Poetry; Notes for My Body Double, which won the 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize; and My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge. The recipient of a 2007 Whiting Award, he lives in Atlanta, Georgia.