Family Happiness (Coronet Books) - Tapa blanda

'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