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‘Colwin is a bard of burgeoning adulthood’ New Yorker
Polly has been the house pet to several families: friendly, cheerful, good with children, happy to bask in the domesticity of other people’s lives – until she meets Gilbert.
Cordy, raised with the spartan, pleasure-rejecting habits of the very rich, cannot stomach the pleasures of his beloved Jane’s cooking, her lavender soap, her adoration.
And Ann, the perpetually stoned young wife of a popular college professor, tries to find the courage to tell her husband that she’s been high since the day they met.
Humorous, tender and moving, here are tales of love and desire in all its forms, with each story told in Laurie Colwin’s irresistible, inimitable style.
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Author Biography
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 MARVELLOUS THING – and two collections of essays, HOME COOKING and MORE HOME COOKING. Laurie Colwin died in 1992.
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