Family Happiness by Laurie Colwin
From the acclaimed author of Home Cooking comes a heartfelt novel about a midlife crisis and a woman tired of being taken for granted--and a reminder that family, like happiness, can take many forms. Colwin wrings magic from ordinary lives. --Entertainment Weekly To the rest of the world, Polly Solo-Miller Demarest lives acharmed life. She has a beautiful home, a dashing lawyer husband, and two delightful children. But beneath this idyllic surface, the pressure of being the perfect flowerof an illustrious family--and a stable, always-available wife, mother, and daughter--are getting to her. The spark has gone out of her marriage, and to her own surprise, she's having an affair. What follows is at once cathartic and provoking, and both may be necessary states in order for Polly to become the kind of person she wants to be.Laurie Colwin has written five novels: Happy All the Time, Family Happiness, Farewell Without Leaving, Shine On, Brilliant and Dangerous Object, and A Great Storm Knocked It Down; three collections of short stories: Passion and Affect, Another Wonderful Thing, and The Lone Pilgrim; and two collections of essays: Home Cooking and More Home Cooking. In 1992, she passed away.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780593313541 |
| ISBN 10 | 0593313542 |
| Title | Family Happiness |
| Author | Laurie Colwin |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2021-06-08 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
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