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The Trouble with Bliss
The Trouble with Bliss
The Trouble with Bliss
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Now an acclaimed independent film starring Michael C. Hall, Lucy Liu, and Peter Fonda.

The Trouble with Bliss is about 35-year-old Morris Bliss, who is clamped in the jaws of New York City inertia: he wants to travel but has no money; he needs a job but has no prospects; he still shares an apartment with his widowed father; and perhaps worst of all the premature death of his mother still lingers and has left him emotionally walled up. When he finds himself wrapped up in an awkward relationship with the sexually precocious, 18-year-old daughter of a former classmate, Morris quickly discovers his static life unraveling and opening up in ways that are long overdue.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherDouglas Light
Release dateFeb 22, 2012
ISBN9781466057456
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Douglas Light

Douglas Light was born in Indiana. His story collection Girls in Trouble won the 2010 AWP Grace Paley Prize for short fiction. He is the author of the novel East Fifth Bliss, which received the Benjamin Franklin Award for Fiction. Light's second novel Where Night Stops received a 2010 NoMAA Grant. His fiction has won an O. Henry Prize and has appeared in the 2003 Best American Nonrequired Reading anthology, and several magazines.

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