The Happiest Man in the World: An Account of the Life of Poppa Neutrino. Alex Wilkinson - Softcover

Wilkinson, Alec

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099516896 ISBN 13: 9780099516897

Publisher: Vintage, 2008

Synopsis

Poppa Neutrino is a philosopher of movement, a vernacular Buddhist, a San Francisco bohemian, a polymath, a pauper, a football strategist for the Red Mesa Redskins of the Navajo Nation, and a mariner who built a raft from materials he found on the streets of New York and sailed across the North Atlantic. And he is possibly the happiest man in the world.

This is a rare and compelling book in which nearly every page contains an implausible, outrageous and exhilarating adventure.

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Product Description:

The Happiest Man in the World Poppa Neutrino is a philosopher of movement, a vernacular Buddhist, a San Francisco bohemian, a polymath, a pauper, a football strategist for the Red Mesa Redskins of the Navajo Nation, and a mariner who built a raft from materials he found on the streets of New York and sailed across the North Atlantic.

Review:

"Strange, wonderful, funny, weird, and totally engaging - and, like all of Wilkinson's work, simply beautiful" (Susan Orlean, author of The Orchid Thief)

"It's not often that a person as inspiring and deeply outrageous as Poppa Neutrino is described by an author as immensely gifted as Wilkinson. Here is a life in the largest, most courageous sense of the word, a life that most of us - if we're honest - will feel a pang of regret at not having lived" (Sebastian Junger, author of A Perfect Storm)

"A marvellous raft of a book in which we float along listening to an amiable Christian hobo and champion bullshitter expound on the inexplicable... A masterpiece" (Garrison Keillor)

"[A] masterpiece of joy...[a] vivid, precise and jubilant testament, which will fill his readers with a great and unexpected happiness" (Edward Hirsch)

"A hauntingly beautiful biography... an elegy to the strange wonder of the stories he [Neutrino] had to tell" (Guardian)

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0099516896
• ISBN 13: 9780099516897
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320