Eine literarische Entdeckung: Familie, Liebe, die Freiheit. Kann es von einem zu viel geben?
Das funkelnde Lesevergnügen der amerikanischen Erfolgsautorin und Foodkolumnistin Laurie Colwin erstmals auf Deutsch.
Pollys Leben scheint in schönster Ordnung. Sie lebt in der Park Avenue mit ihrem gut aussehenden Anwaltsehemann Henry und hat zwei süße Kinder. Sie arbeitet in einem interessanten Job, der ihr Zeit lässt, sich um alle und alles zu...
This delightful comedy of manners and morals is about romantic friendship, romantic marriage, and romantic love--about four people who are good-hearted and sane, lucky and gifted, and who find one another. Knowing that happiness is an art form that requires energy, discipline, and talent, Guido, Holly, Vincnt, and Misty deal with jealousy, estrangement, and other perils involved in the search for love.
At night, some count sheep and others read mystery novels. I lie on the bed and start thinking about food.» Weaving reflections and memories of several decades between stoves and books along with her most infallible recipes, the novelist Laurie Colwin invites us to rediscover the pleasure of cooking with joy and without complexes. In chapters like Alone with an eggplant", "Vomiting dinners. My testimony" and "Stuffed veal fin. A Bad Idea, " th...
A modern classic from Laurie Colwin (Home Cooking), one of the most beloved romantic comedy authors of all time, the story of a woman who has everything... at least on the surface.Polly Solo-Miller Demarest has it all: a dashing lawyer husband, two beautiful children, and a cushy Uptown apartment. And yet... she feels trapped. Trapped by the pressure to be the perfect daughter to a distinguished family. Trapped in her marriage. Which is why Po...
With a new foreword by Deb Perelman of Smitten Kitchen, the triumphant sequel to Home Cooking by "a home cook, like you and me, whose charm and lack of pretension make her wonderfully human and a welcome companion as she chatters on about the small culinary accomplishments and discoveries that occur in her kitchen” (Chicago Tribune). Following the success of Home Cooking, Laurie Colwin returned to the kitchen to cook up this delightful mix of ...
In this dazzling collection of stories, Laurie Colwin masterfully weaves together tales of love-and desire-in all its forms. The Lone Pilgrim explores the universal complications of the heart-and the mysteries of being fully human in the world. In these thirteen stories, a book illustrator is enamored with her publisher, as she pines for her previous lover, a photographer recovering from her second marriage in far-off Inverness, Scotland, befr...
Josephine "Billy" Delielle and Francis Clemens are happily married-just not to each other. Another Marvelous Thing is the story of their affair, from its fabulous inception to its inevitable end. Billy and Francis couldn't be more different, at least when it comes to age and disposition, but that doesn't prevent them from falling in love and settling into the easy rhythms of romance-phone calls every morning, rendezvous every weekday afternoon...
A heartfelt novel about a midlife crisis and a woman tired of being taken for granted - and a reminder that family, like happiness, can take many forms.
Josephine "Billy" Delielle and Francis Clemens are happily married - just not to each other. Another Marvellous Thing is the story of their affair, from its fabulous inception to its inevitable end.
One of the most beloved novels from the critically acclaimed novelist Laurie Colwin, Goodbye Without Leaving explores a woman's attempts to reconcile her rock-and-roll past with her significantly more sedate family life as a wife and mother.
As a bored graduate student, Geraldine Colshares is plucked from her too-tame existence when she is invited to tour as the only white backup singer for Vernon and Ruby Shakely and the Shakettes. The excit...
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 In her fifth and final novel, acclaimed author Laurie Colwin explores marriage and friendship, motherhood and careers, as experienced by a cast of del...
A 'jewel of romantic comedy' (New York Times) from the late great author, adored by Nigella Lawson, Dolly Alderton, Katherine Heiny and Caroline O'Donoghue.This is a novel about what happens when - just occasionally - we can live happily ever after.Vincent is pretty certain he will win a Nobel Prize for Physics. When he meets Holly, he loves her on sight. Guido plans to write poetry and when Misty - bored and misanthropic - steps into his offi...
Geraldine, ragazza ebrea di buona famiglia e appassionata di musica soul, ha lasciato il dottorato per fare la corista (l'unica corista bianca) in un gruppo rhythm and blues, Vernon e Ruby Shakely e le Shakettes. Per un paio d'anni ha condotto la vita avventurosa e sregolata dei musicisti "on the road", ma poi ha messo la testa a posto e ha sposato un suo fan: un avvocato ebreo newyorkese di successo. Innamorata e corrisposta, Geraldine si tro...
Immaginate la New York dei film di Woody Alien: le case eleganti dell'Upper West Side, i viali frondosi di Central Park, una borghesia intellettuale benestante e colta, ora immaginatela raccontata non con un occhio impietoso sulle sue turbe e fobie, ma con la voce gioiosa di una scrittrice miracolosamente in grado di mettere in scena una storia d'amore felice senza rinunciare alla profondità di sguardo e alla precisione del ritratto sociale e ...
