Overview
""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 delightfully idiosyncratic Manhattanites. At once a hilarious social commentary and an insightful, sophisticated modern romance, A Big Storm Knocked It Over stands as a living tribute to one of contemporary fiction's most original and beloved voices. 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.
Full Product Details
Author: Laurie Colwin ,
Rebecca Lowman
Publisher: HarperCollins
Imprint: HarperCollins
Edition: Unabridged edition
ISBN: 9798874714918
Publication Date: 16 April 2024
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"""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"" ""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"""
"""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"" ""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"" ""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"""
Author Information
Laurie Colwin (1944-1992) wrote novels, three short-story collections, and two essay collections. Her five novels are Happy All the Time; Family Happiness; Goodbye without Leaving; Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object; and A Big Storm Knocked It Over. Rebecca Lowman is an actress and audiobook narrator who has won numerous Earphones Awards. She has starred in numerous television shows, including Law & Order, Big Love, NCIS, and Grey's Anatomy, among many others. She earned her MFA from Columbia University.
