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Happy All the Time: A Novel

by Laurie Colwin

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Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

One of Laurie Colwin's best known novels, Happy All the Time hysterically follows the ins and outs of romantic friendship, marriage, and love. Knowing that happiness is an art form requiring energy, discipline, and talent, two couples — Guido and Holly and Vincent and Misty — must overcome jealousy, estrangement, and countless other perils in order to successfully find true love.

Review:

"It abounds in good lines, aphorisms, advice to both the loved and the lovelorn." New York Times

Review:

"Colwin liberates our prudishly repressed lust for clean, intelligent, healthy comedy." Washington Post

Review:

"An elegant, fresh, funny tale of four people in love....There's electricity here....Pure delight." Village Voice

Review:

"Endless surprises and ultimately boundless joy." The New Yorker

Review:

"Colwin's canny Manhattan pastorale strikes me as at least as much fun to read as Sense and Sensibility." Newsweek

About the Author

Laurie Colwin is the author of five novels: Happy All the Time, Family Happiness, Goodbye Without Leaving, Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object, and A Big Storm Knocked It Over; three collections of short stories: Passion and Affect, Another Marvelous Thing, and The Lone Pilgrim; and two collections of essays: Home Cooking and More Home Cooking. She died in 1992.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780060975647
Subtitle:
(a novel )
Author:
Colwin, Laurie
Publisher:
HarperPerennial
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Friendship
Subject:
Marriage
Subject:
Love stories
Subject:
Marriage -- United States -- Fiction.
Copyright:
Edition Description:
1st HarperPerennial ed.
Series Volume:
v.147
Publication Date:
September 1993
Binding:
Trade Paper
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
213 p.
Dimensions:
7.97x5.30x.55 in. .37 lbs.

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