Happy All the Time
&ldquo;A wise, bighearted book by a wise, bighearted writer. A deft and funny one, too.&rdquo; &mdash;The Washington Post&ldquo;A luminous telling of two modern romances, a book that lingers sweetly and hilariously in the memory.&rdquo; &mdash;Dallas Morning News&ldquo;Abounds in good lines, aphorisms, advice to both the loved and the lovelorn.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times&#160;&ldquo;An elegant, fresh, funny tale of four people in love&hellip;. There&rsquo;s electricity here... pure delight.&rdquo; &mdash;Village Voice&#160;&ldquo;A pleasure&hellip;. Endless surprises and ultimately boundless joy&hellip;. It would be difficult not to enjoy it all!&rdquo; &mdash;The New Yorker&ldquo;Colwin&rsquo;s view of the world is comic with a subtle sense of sadness, and her love for even her most intractable characters does not keep her from laughing at their expense.&rdquo; &mdash;The Times-Picayune(New Orleans)&#160;&ldquo;[Laurie Colwin] handles feeling as cunningly as Ann Beattie and Frederick Barthelme handle numbness.&rdquo; &mdash;Los Angeles Times&#160;&ldquo;If Laurie Colwin were an artist instead of a writer, she would be a maker of those small, delicious drawings dropped into the text ofThe New Yorker. . . . She is a master of lovely incidentals&mdash;the curve of the belly of a pitcher, the color of a blue Staffordshire plate, the comfort of &lsquo;nursery&rsquo; food on cold days.&rdquo; &mdash;Christian Science Monitor&#160;&ldquo;Colwin is ingenious, comedic, and spirited.&rdquo; &mdash;The Boston Globe&#160;&ldquo;[Colwin&rsquo;s] novels . . . have great charm&mdash;a charm that comes from a calm, witty and observant world view and her engaging writing style. She describes normal life with normal people; she writes about love, relationships and families. She illuminates modern urban romance. She looks at the way husbands and wives, brothers and sisters&mdash;and, almost inevitably in a Colwin novel, extramarital lovers&mdash;deal with each other. It might be boring if not for the acuteness of her insight.&rdquo; &mdash;Buffalo News&#160;&ldquo;A truly wonderful writer.&rdquo; &mdash;The Orlando Sentinel&#160;&ldquo;Colwin writes with such sunny skill, and such tireless enthusiasm.&rdquo; &mdash;Joyce Carol Oates,The New York Times Book Review&#160;&ldquo;The successor to Dorothy Parker and Dawn Powell.&rdquo; &mdash;Roger Friedman&#160;&ldquo;A writer of originality and vision.&rdquo; &mdash;San Francisco Chronicle--This text refers to an alternatePaperbackedition.