Family Happiness (Coronet Books) - Softcover

Colwin, Laurie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340513055 ISBN 13: 9780340513057

Verlag: Sceptre, 1989

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'FAMILY HAPPINESS is an examination of familial ties that strangle as well as bind, of the excru tia ting pain of finding happiness, of the conflicting pressures that strong desires can exert... Sophisticated, funny, knowing, clear-eyed, intricate; it is also down to earth, compassionate and entirely affecting. In three words: Hove it' The Washington Post The sharp clarity of Miss Colwin's narrative style serves to make immediate and harrowing the pain of Polly's being rent between bourgeois love and romantic passion... There is so much talent and intelligence evident in FAMILY HAPPINESS' The New York Times 'Laurie Colwin chronicles lightly and neatiy the fate of those who are well-situated, the intermittentiy troubled fortunes of people who are basically fortunate... Her prose is plain, clear, bouncy and intelligent. A wonderfully appealing novel - deft, well-turned and pleasurable' Newsday 'A winner' The Irish Times

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A novel from Laurie Colwin whose previous works include "Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object", "Happy All the Time", and "Another Marvellous Thing". The author's short story collections include "Passion and Affect" and "The Lone Pilgrim".

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• Verlag: Sceptre
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0340513055
• ISBN 13: 9780340513057
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224