Happiness Is Too Much Trouble

<p><b>Turner Publishing is proud to present a new edition of Sandra Hochman's <i>Happiness Is Too Much Trouble</i></b></p><p>First published by Putnam in 1976 Hochman's follow-up to <i>Walking Papers</i> is the story of a unique woman told by a unique voice in American literature.</p><p>From the Putman edition: Who took over where Louis B. Mayer left off? A new kind of woman: Lulu. Lulu Cartwright is a troublemaker on a pilgrimage to save souls. One morning she wakes up and finds that she has been named head of the world's largest film studio. This powerful job is hers by a freak of computerized technology and ironic justice. As Lulu describes herself she is the unbroken token. She is also wise frightened funny and sexually vulnerable.</p><p>Throughout the novel we follow Lulu from her moment of triumph back into her thoughts and memories. We meet her old lovers husbands; we meet her parents her childhood friends her child; but most important of all we meet Dumbo-a hustler and a stud. We watch Dumbo change from an out-of-work extra into Lulus wife and finally into an entrepreneur in the foot business. Through Lulu s eyes we put together the puzzle of her love for Dumbo. Dumbo is alive with contradictions devotions and a desire to heal soles. Dumbo as perceived by Lulu is the new hero a stud-savior.</p><p>We also enter with Lulu through the computerized portals of the new Hollywood. We encounter the movieland of executives who never see films the Hollywood of consultants accountants and frightened corporation men who have to deliver image and product in order to satisfy stockholders. On the way to the top Lulu Cartwright finds herself in bed with Machiavellis losers and vibrators. Lulu is the kind of woman who manages to change the system not merely be victimized by it.</p><p><i>Happiness Is Too Much Trouble</i> is the story past and present of a woman who is finally and against all odds a winner. Lulu by an accident of history is forced to give up happiness and settle instead for fame fortune power. What makes her different is that she loves every minute of it. And so will you.</p>