Family Happiness
First published 1982
Reception
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Where to Put Your Husband
‘What people eat and how they serve it’ fascinated Colwin, and not only because (as she once noted) she’d learned about the cultural significance of ‘daily things’ in Anthropology 101. Her sharp and nuanced descriptions of eating, preparing and shopping for meals are psychologically and socially…
By Kasia Boddy
Also reviews Happy All the Time , A Big Storm Knocked It Over and Shine on, Bright and Dangerous Object by Laurie Colwin
About the book
Polly is the flower of the Solo-Miller clan, a happy wife and mother who has looks, brains and money, but an unexpected love affair with a painter jars her into reconsidering the whole of her life.
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Catalogue record
Knopf, 1982 · 271 pages
- Publisher
- Knopf, 1982
- Pages
- 271
- LC · Dewey
- PS3553.O4783 F3 1982 · 813.54
- ISBN
- 978-0-394-52511-2
Full recordClose
- Publisher
- Knopf, 1982
- Pages
- 271
- LC
- PS3553.O4783 F3 1982
- Dewey
- 813.54
- ISBNs
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- 978-0-394-52511-2
- 978-1-4746-1595-2
- 978-0-06-097272-1
- 978-0-449-21447-3
- 978-1-322-16777-0
- 978-0-450-05727-4
- Editions
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- Thorndike Press, 1982, 419 pages
- Knopf, 1982, 271 pages
- Fawcett, 1983
- Hamilton, 1983, 271 pages
- New English Library, 1984, 215 pages
- Fawcett, 1987
- Author
- Colwin, Laurie, 1944–1992
- Statement
- Family Happiness / Laurie Colwin.
- Records
- Open Library LCCN 82000023 OCLC 8170579
- United States
- 1980s
- Family
- Families
- New york (n.y.), fiction
- New York (State)
- New York