“If Douglas Adams and P.J. O’Rourke had an extra-terrestrial Satanic love-child, it would probably write like Will Ferguson. That is, it would be observant, attitudinal, occasionally offensive and funny.” –Los Angeles Times
“The writer acquits himself well. . . . [He’s] the kind of observer–sharp-eyed and irreverent–that a reader likes to sojourn with.” –Dennis Drabelle, Washington Post
“The whole way, he offers a little history and a lot of personality. An easygoing, vernacular companion through the vast regions of the Great North Country.” –Kirkus Reviews
“An appealing, brisk account of his many travels in his native land. . . . The title story . . . perfectly represents the book’s twin charms: Ferguson‘s comic cynicism, and his descriptions of intriguing events and individuals tied to the places he visits. . . . Humor and history are the book’s uniting elements.
” –Publishers Weekly
Praise for HappinessTM:
“A mean, wonderful, hilarious rant, both poisonously funny satire and dead-on indictment. The nature of True Evil exposed–with all its warm, fuzzy and asphyxiating manifestations. If I wasn’t already a smoker, drinker and misanthrope, I’d start tomorrow.” –Anthony Bourdain
“Although advertised as hilarious, HappinessTM has an ominous truth at its core. Novelist Will Ferguson has written the ultimate satire on self-help books, full of hijinks and capers–think of Monty Python skits replete with both juvenility and Latin terms. Its conclusion, however, mutes the belly laughs: “we can’t . . . close our eyes and hug ourselves into believing that old age, death and disillusion don’t exist.”” –The Washington Post
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