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How to Be Happy: A Memoir of Love, Sex and Teenage Confusion

✍ Scribed by Burton, David

Book ID
108916233
Publisher
The Text Publishing Company
Year
2015
Tongue
English
Weight
739 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781925240344

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

A funny, sad and serious memoir, How to Be Happy is David Burton�s story of his turbulent life at high school and beyond. Feeling out of place and convinced that he is not normal, David has a rocky start. He longs to have a girlfriend, but his first �date� is a disaster. There�s the catastrophe of the school swimming carnival�David is not sporty�and friendships that take devastating turns. Then he finds some solace in drama classes with the creation of �Crazy Dave�, and he builds a life where everything is fine. But everything is not fine.

And, at the centre of it all, trying desperately to work it all out, is the real David.

How to Be Happy tackles depression, friendship, sexual identity, suicide, academic pressure, love and adolescent confusion. It�s a brave and honest account of one young man�s search for a happy, true and meaningful life that will resonate with readers young and old.

David Burton is a twenty-seven-year-old writer...

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