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A Big Storm Knocked It Over - by Laurie Colwin (Paperback)

A Big Storm Knocked It Over - by  Laurie Colwin (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>"Laurie Colwin's beautiful final book, <em>A Big Storm Knocked It Over</em>, 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 <em>Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It</em></strong></p><p><strong>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 social commentary and an insightful, sophisticated modern romance, <em>A Big Storm Knocked It Over</em> stands as a living tribute to one of contemporary fiction's most original and beloved voices.</strong></p><p>In her late thirties, Jane Louise Parker has just married a man whose native decency leaves her almost breathless at her good fortune. After the wedding, she returns to work at a small and tony publishing house whose finances are in disarray. Alongside her best friend, Edie, Jane Louise patiently waits to become pregnant, wondering if a baby will provide a sense of rootedness that still seems to elude her. When that longed-for child arrives, it transforms the Parkers' lives in a way that is as unexpected as it is rapturous. </p><br/><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>From the first sentence of <em>A Big Storm Knocked It Over, </em>beguiling words and an engaging ambience combine to seduce us.--<strong><em>Washington Post Book World</em></strong><br><br>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.--<strong><em>New York Times</em></strong><br><br>Laurie Colwin's last and most touching work.--<strong><em>Boston Globe</em></strong><br><br>"I've read and re-read every book by Laurie Colwin. Acutely observed, beautifully written, witty, and profound--each one is a delight."--<strong>Gretchen Rubin, author of <em>Happier at Home</em> and <em>The Happiness Project</em></strong><br><br>"Laurie Colwin's beautiful final book, <em>A Big Storm Knocked It Over</em>, 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."--<strong>Maile Meloy, author of <em>Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It</em></strong><br>

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