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Happy All the Time
"A funny, loving, celebratory book in which everything is perfect." --The Boston Globe
Guido and Vincent, best friends (and third cousins), aren't expecting to fall head-over-heels in love, but that is exactly what happens. Guido is smitten with Holly, a dazzling young woman who chafes at the idea of complacency, while Vincent falls for Misty, a work colleague with an acerbic sense of humor who seems as uninterested in romance as she is in Vincent (at first). In the months that follow, both couples will experience the rituals of courtship, jealousy, estrangement, family entanglements, and other perils of the heart as they try to find love in spite of themselves.
Colwin is a master of portraying the messiness of life: here, in hilarious and endearing prose, she follows these two improbable pairs, and their families, as they navigate and ultimately find happiness together--not all the time, but for most of it.
With a foreword by Katherine Heiny, author of Early Morning Riser.
Book Details
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publish Date: Mar 23rd, 2010
- Pages: 224
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.02in - 5.18in - 0.69in - 0.53lb
- EAN: 9780307474407
- Categories: • Literary• Romance - Contemporary• Humorous - General
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What people are saying
Rachel Syme is an author and staff writer at The New Yorker.
… a book about two couples in late 1970s NYC, but also about taste, autonomy, how to live alone, how to set a table, how to give up a little bit of yourself so that you can connect with someone else, what parts of yourself to never give away... You’ll read this book in one inhalation.
Praise for this book
"Luminous ... a book that lingers sweetly and hilariously in the memory." --The Dallas Morning News
"A wise, bighearted book by a wise, bighearted writer. A deft and funny one, too." --The Washington Post
"Colwin is a bard of burgeoning adulthood." --The New Yorker
"A comedy of manners that reminds us that manners are comic and should be enjoyed as such." --The New York Times
"Laurie Colwin's great subject was happiness--whether romantic, familial, domestic, or culinary--and she managed to write about it with both Ă©lan and emotional depth.... How wonderful it is that her books are still with us." --The Christian Science Monitor
What people are saying
Rachel Syme is an author and staff writer at The New Yorker.
… a book about two couples in late 1970s NYC, but also about taste, autonomy, how to live alone, how to set a table, how to give up a little bit of yourself so that you can connect with someone else, what parts of yourself to never give away... You’ll read this book in one inhalation.