A Big Storm Knocked It Over
A Novel
$23.75
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
20 April 2021
Summary
“Laurie Colwin’s beautiful final book, A Big Storm Knocked It Over, is funny and moving and rich with complicated happiness–a love story for anyone who tends to overthink things, a comic novel about trying to find a place in the world.” – Maile Meloy
In her fifth and final novel, acclaimed author Laurie Colwin explores marriage and friendship, motherhood and careers, as experienced by a cast of delightfully idiosyncratic Manhattanites. At once a hilarious soc…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780063046436 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0063046431 |
| Author: | Laurie Colwin |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Imprint: | Collins |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 20 April 2021 |
| Weight: | 181g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 135mm x 201mm |
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Critics Review
“I’ve read and re-read every book by Laurie Colwin. Acutely observed, beautifully written, witty, and profound–each one is a delight.”
“I would love… to start a Colwin renaissance.” - Elin Hilderbrand, on NPR’s “All Things Considered”
“Laurie Colwin’s beautiful final book, A Big Storm Knocked It Over, is funny and moving and rich with complicated happiness-a love story for anyone who tends to overthink things, a comic novel about trying to find a place in the world.” - Maile Meloy, author of Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It
“I’ve read and re-read every book by Laurie Colwin. Acutely observed, beautifully written, witty, and profound–each one is a delight.” - Gretchen Rubin, author of Happier at Home and The Happiness Project
“Laurie Colwin was utterly fearless in writing about happiness… . The novel makes the idea of happy endings for decent people seem entirely plausible, almost inevitable–no small feat for a writer these days and no small pleasure for a reader.” - New York Times
“From the first sentence of A Big Storm Knocked It Over, beguiling words and an engaging ambience combine to seduce us.” - Washington Post Book World
“Laurie Colwin’s last and most touching work.” - Boston Globe
Laurie Colwin
Laurie Colwin is the author of five novels: Happy All the Time; Family Happiness; Goodbye Without Leaving; Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object; and A Big Storm Knocked It Over; three collections of short stories: Passion and Affect, Another Marvelous Thing, and The Lone Pilgrim; and two collections of essays: Home Cooking and More Home Cooking. She died in 1992.
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