Happy All the Time

Zusatztext “Laurie Colwin was the best kind of master: human and humorous, full of wisdom and love. When am I happy all the time? When I have a stack of Laurie Colwin books beside me.” —Emma Straub, bestselling author of All Adults Here “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.” —Rachel Syme, 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 élan and emotional depth. . . . How wonderful it is that her books are still with us.” — The Christian Science Monitor Informationen zum Autor LAURIE COLWIN is the author of five novels— Happy All the Time ; Family Happiness ; Goodbye Without Leaving ; A Big Storm Knocked It Over ; and Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object —three collections of short stories— Passion and Affect ; The Lone Pilgrim ; and Another Marvelous Thing —and two collections of essays, Home Cooking and More Home Cooking . Colwin died in 1992. Klappentext 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 love 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-if not all the time, but for most of it. A modern classic first published in 1978, Happy All the Time is as much a sophisticated romantic comedy about the love between two partners as it is a novel about the powerful bonds shared by family members, friends, colleagues and confidants.CHAPTER 1        Guido Morris and Vincent Cardworthy were third cousins. No one remembered which Morris had married which Cardworthy, and no one cared except at large family gatherings when this topic was introduced and subjected to the benign opinions of all. Vincent and Guido had been friends since babyhood. They had been strolled together in the same pram and as boys were often brought together, either at the Cardworthy house in Petrie, Connecticut, or at the Morris's in Boston to play marbles, climb trees, and set off cherry bombs in trash cans and mailboxes. As teenagers, they drank beer in hiding and practiced smoking Guido's father's cigars, which did not make them sick, but happy. As adults, they both loved a good cigar.        At college they fooled around, spent money, and wondered what would become of them when they grew up. Guido in tended to write poetry in heroic couplets and Vincent thought he might eventually win the Nobel Prize for physics.         In their late twenties they found themselves together again in Cambridge. Guido had gone to law school, had put in several years at a Wall Street law firm, and had discovered that his heart was not in his work, and so he had come back to graduate school to study Romance languages and literature. He was old for a graduate student, but he had decided to give himself a few years of u...

Product details

• Authors: Laurie Colwin
• Publisher: Vintage USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 23.03.2010
• EAN: 9780307474407
• ISBN: 978-0-307-47440-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 205 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Vintage Contemporaries; Vintage Contemporaries; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature