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The Happiness Manifesto
Martin Rowson
Rotland Press £8.07
THANK GOD — if there is one — that we can laugh. Martin Rowson, whose cartoons are well known to Morning Star readers, believes that we use laughter as a survival tool. If we didn’t laugh, we would go mad facing the grotesqueries of our world.
It is appropriate that the publishers of The Happiness Manifesto, Rotland Press of Detroit, specialise in works of “mordant amusement and exuberant despair.”
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