Happyland (novel)

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Happyland is satirical novel written by J. Robert Lennon about a town in upstate New York that is taken over by a doll maker. Some have interpreted the plot as a thinly veiled account of American Girl founder Pleasant Rowland's attempt to develop the village of Aurora, Cayuga County, New York, into a quaint tourism destination. The novel also features a women's college, very much like Rowland's alma mater Wells College and portrays it as a center of lesbian activity.

In 2006, Happyland was dropped by publisher W. W. Norton, which had previously published Lennon's book Mailman. Instead, it was published as a five-part serial in Harper's Magazine.^[1]

[edit] External links

• Interview in the Aurora, NY local newspaper
• Report on Happyland in the Ithaca Times
• Aurora NY, the village that inspired Happyland

[edit] References

1. ^ Donadio, Rachel. "The Mystery of the Missing Novel", The New York Times, 2006-08-27. Retrieved on 2007-07-01.