The Age of Happy Problems

The Dial Press, 1962. Hardback. Very Good. 1962 Edition - VERY GOOD in good dust jacket. DJ in protective mylar. Binding is tight and square. No marks in text. . . . . . . . In his 30's, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist Herbert Gold set out some of his impressions of the 1950s, mostly while travelling the wide world looking for what was not Cleveland. He offers the collection again in 1962, to test the validity of history against his predictions. . . . . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: PART I: AMERICAN EVENTS: 1.) The Age of Happy Problems -- 2.) How to be an Artist's Wife -- 3.) Divorce as a Moral Act -- 4.) The Bachelor's Dilemma -- 5.) The Mystery of Personality in the Novel -- 6.) The Fair Apple of Progress -- 7.) The New Upper-Middle Soap Opera -- 8.0) Hip, Cool, Beat, and Frantic -- 8.1) The American as Hipster -- 8.2) Hip, Cool, Beat, and Frantic -- 8.3) The Rise of the Treeniks -- 9.) Fiction of the Sixties -- 10.) A Dog in Brooklyn, a Girl in Detroit: A Life Among the Humanities ------ PART II: AMERICAN PLACES: Paris: Notes from La Vie de Boheme (Avec Tout Conforts) -- 11.) Haiti: Americans in the Port of Princes -- 12.) Reno: The Great Divide -- 13.) Greenwich Village: The Changing Village -- 14.) Death 1n Miami Beach