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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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"Consistently amusing and ultimately surprising."-- "Newsweek"If anyone wrote eloquently and magnificently about affairs of the heart, it was Laurie Colwin."-- "San Francisco Chronicle
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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.
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- PublisherSceptre
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0340513055
- ISBN 13 9780340513057
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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