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But inside The Dell--where Robert Frost often sat in conversation over sherry, and stories appeared to spring from the very air--all was not right.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Roger Garis's inability to match his parents' success in his own work as playwright, novelist, and magazine writer led to his conviction that he was a failure as father, husband, and son, and eventually deepened into mental illness characterized by raging mood swings, drug abuse, and bouts of debilitating and destructive depression. \u003ci\u003eHouse of Happy Endings\u003c\/i\u003e is Leslie Garis's mesmerizing, tender, and harrowing account of coming of age in a wildly imaginative, loving, but fatally wounded family.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49639790313745,"sku":"GOR006802336","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50351084830993,"sku":"CIN0374531587G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50962178572561,"sku":"CIN0374531587VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53008773185809,"sku":"NIN9780374531584","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0374531587.jpg?v=1750910439"},{"product_id":"house-of-happy-endings-book-leslie-garis-9780224082402","title":"The House of Happy Endings","description":"Leslie Garis' grandparents, Howard and Lillian Garis, were, from the turn of the century to the 1950s, phenomenally productive (and incredibly popular) authors of books for children. 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Roger Garis' inability to match his parents' success in his own work as playwright, novelist and magazine writer led him to believe that he was a failure as father, husband and son, and eventually deepened into mental illness characterised by raging mood swings, drug abuse and bouts of debilitating and destructive depression. \"House of Happy Endings\" is Leslie Garis' mesmerising, tender and harrowing account of growing up in a wildly imaginative, loving, but fatally wounded family.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49729919516945,"sku":"NGR9780224082402","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/022408240X.jpg?v=1750695474"},{"product_id":"house-of-happy-endings-book-leslie-garis-9780374299378","title":"House of Happy Endings","description":"\u003cp\u003eHoward Garis, creator of the famed Uncle Wiggily series, along with his wife, Lilian, were phenomenally productive writers of popular children's series--including \u003ci\u003eThe Bobbsey Twins \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTom Swift--\u003c\/i\u003efrom the turn of the century to the 1950s. In a large, romantic house in Amherst, Massachusetts, Leslie Garis, her two brothers, and their parents and grandparents aimed to live a life that mirrored the idyllic world the elder Garises created nonstop. 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