Laurie Colwin

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.Weaving together memories, recipes, and wild tales of years spent in the kitchen, Home Cooking is Laurie Colwin’s manifesto on the joys of sharing food and entertaining. From the humble hotplate of her one-room apartment to the crowded kitchens of bustling parties, Colwin regales us with tales of meals gone both magnificently well and disastrously wrong. Hilarious, personal, and full of Colwin’s hard-won expertise, Home Cooking will speak to the heart of any amateur cook, professional chef, or food lover.This 2021 reissue features a new cover by Olivia McGiff.

Guido and Vincent are childhood best friends—third cousins, really—living in Cambridge and dreaming about their futures. Guido plans to write poetry while Vincent feels confident he will win a Nobel prize for physics. When Guido spots Holly while exiting a museum, he can immediately sense that she will be difficult, quirky, and hard to live with. He loves her on sight. Vincent, open-minded and cheerful, meets Misty at work. Though she is a bored and misanthropic brunette, he finds himself desperate to know her. Through courtship, jealousy, estrangement, and other perils, Happy All the Time follows four sane, intelligent, and good-intentioned people who manage to find love in spite of themselves.This 2021 reissue includes a new foreword by Katherine Heiny and cover art by Olivia McGiff.An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.

Polly is a happy wife and mother from a remarkable strong and attractive family—until one day she finds herself entangled in a completely unexpected, sweet, yet painful, love affair with a painter named Lincoln Bennett. All of Polly's beliefs about herself explode, uprooting what had seemed to be a settled—and everlasting—idea of family happiness.

More Home Cooking, like its predecessor, Home Cooking, is an expression of Laurie Colwin's lifelong passion for cuisine. In this delightful mix of recipes, advice, and anecdotes, she writes about often overlooked food items such as beets, pears, black beans, and chutney. With down-to-earth charm and wit, Colwin also discusses the many pleasures and problems of cooking at home in essays such as "Desserts That Quiver," "Turkey Angst," and "Catering on One Dollar a Head." As informative as it is entertaining, More Home Cooking is a delicious treat for anyone who loves to spend time in the kitchen.

The acclaimed author of Happy All the Time charts the story of a whirlwind love affair of two people who are happily married (just not to each other)—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, the odd out-of-town escape—despite both still being very partial to their spouses. In interconnected stories, Laurie Colwin deftly reveals each character’s point of view and examines, in razor-sharp detail, the “marvelous” and messy glory of modern love and the curious desires of the heart.This whirlwind romance, perfectly captured in Colwinesque frank and funny style, is firm proof that opposites really do attract.

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 voices.

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 Coleshares 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 exciting years she spends as a Shakette are a mixed blessing, however, because when she ultimately submits to a conventional life of marriage and children, she finds herself stuck in bittersweet recollections of life on the road. As she grudgingly searches for a path toward happiness that doesn't involve a Day-Glo neon minidress, readers will be enchanted by Geraldine’s attempts to grow up, even though she’s already an adult.Employing her usual dry wit and candor, Goodbye Without Leaving is a classic novel from Laurie Colwin.This edition features cover art by Olivia McGiff.

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.From the critically acclaimed author of Happy All the Time and Home Cooking, a wise and witty tale of a woman struggling to overcome her grief and find her future.When Sam Bax, a charming daredevil of a Boston lawyer, sails his boat into a storm off the coast of Maine, Elizabeth "Olly" Bax, his wife, is widowed at twenty-seven. With no pretense of courage, and a vague dislike for what she feels is the cheap availability of her emotions, Olly grieves the husband she probably would have divorced, while coping with the warmth and awkwardness of family trying (and failing) to distract her from their own grief. As she learns to rethink her life and her love, she becomes close to Sam's brother, Patrick—and begins to realize Sam's recklessness and passion may not be as foreign to her as she thought.Laurie Colwin depicts Olly—the “More Life Widow of the More Life Kid”—with humor, compassion, and a decided lack of sentimentality, creating a real heroine who tries to remain true to her heart while keeping her head.This edition features cover art by Olivia McGiff.

This collection of stories about love and privacy is serious , funny, tender, and alive with the elegance and spirit that characterize Laurie Colwin's work. In these stories, the reader moves among young men and women: pianists, historians, book illustrators, architects; women who are composed and inimitably sassy; and men who are magnetic, adventurous in love, or fiendishly elusive. They are people who are experiencing, often for the first time, the starting, enriching, and maddening complications of adult life.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780060958954Within these fourteen hilarious and insightful tales of urban life by Laurie Colwin, critically acclaimed author of Happy All the Time and Home Cooking, you'll meet:Raiford Phelps, an ornithologist who discovers new patterns of animal behavior when he meets Mary Leibnitz.Benno Morna, a temporary bachelor, free to indulge in TV, junk food, and Greenie Frenzel when his wholesome wife is out of town.Vincent Cadworthy and Guido Morris, whose elegant friendship is suddenly disrupted by Misty Berkowitz.Elizabeth Bayard, whose passion for order and civility does constant battle with her unruly loves.They are buffeted by the pressures of their jobs, imposed upon by their families and their surroundings, and remain ever hopeful of making sense of their lives. With compassion and biting wit, Laurie Colwin has created a new sort of comedy of manners.

The definitive collection of short fiction from a writer “who has single-handedly revitalized the short story” ( Los Angeles Times ).“If anyone wrote eloquently and magnificently about affairs of the heart, it was Laurie Colwin” ( San Francisco Chronicle ). In this stunning volume, which gathers together her three brilliant story collections, the beloved author of Home Cooking explores the mysteries of life and love with her signature blend of empathy, wisdom, and wit. Passion and Affect : From two ornithologists who find their own mating habits to be just as inscrutable as those of their avian subjects to a lonely husband whose search for exotic hobbies leads him to television, junk food, and a young woman with Technicolor green hair, the heroes and heroines of Colwin’s debut story collection are clever, naïve, brave, delicate, and fickle. In other words, they are profoundly human, and their precisely observed, warmly intelligent stories capture nothing less than what it means to be alive in the modern world. The Lone Pilgrim : In the title story of this elegant and insightful collection, a book illustrator meets the man of her dreams and struggles to say goodbye to her old self. “A Mythological Subject” is the tale of an adulterous affair that arrives unexpected and unwanted, like a natural disaster, but is no mistake. “A Girl Skating” is a delicate and haunting portrait of the unbridgeable divide between life and art, poetry and nature. “One reads with fascination the steps by which lovers in one story after another stumble upon their forthright declarations” ( The New York Times Book Review ). Another Marvelous Thing : These “witty, literate, and intelligent” linked stories are told from the alternating perspectives of two adulterous lovers ( The New York Times Book Review ). Josephine “Billy” Delielle and Francis Clemens are economists married to other people, but the similarities end there. He is fastidious; she is a slob. He delights in good food and fine wine; her refrigerator is always empty. He is old and sentimental; she is young and tough minded. Charting their electrifying affair from beginning to end, this exquisite story collection tackles the thorniest of subjects with honesty, grace, and humor.

Contains 10 short stories: Animal Behaviour Dangerous French Mistress The Water Rats The Girl with the Harlequin Glasses Passion and Affect The Man Who Jumped into the Water The Smartest Woman in America Mr Parker Wet The Big Plum

D'un côté, des entomologistes mâles fascinés par le règne animal, des sociologues et des poètes célèbres persuadés que rien de ce qui est humain ne leur est étranger, des mathématiciens romantiques incapables de compter jusqu'à deux.De l'autre, des filles sagaces, de condition et d'intérêts divers, qui ont au moins une chose en commun - la petite flamme fitzgeraidienne. Avec une belle vitalité, elles prennent les hommes comme sujet d'étude. Tous ces jeunes gens séduisants et doués se brûlent les ailes en jouant à la guerre des sexes comme on joue aux cow-boys et aux Indiens, en inversant parfois étrangement les rôles. Ils se font peur - comme on il imagine, elles surtout leur font peur.Laurie Colwin, avec ces histoires pleines d'un charme parfois bizarre, sinon glauque, se livre ici, avec sa tendre ironie, à un pastiche brillant d'un certain comportementalisme anglo-saxon.

Onze histoires d'amour, de famille, de passion : des couples qui doutent ou peinent à se former, des rencontres inespérées, improbables ou manquées pour un rien, des portraits contemporains autour d'intimités qui subsistent ou se créent.

In this short story from Laurie Colwin’s The Lone Pilgrim, the perpetually stoned young wife of a popular college professor struggles to tell her husband that she’s been high since the day they met. Juggling her housewifish duties with her daily hours spent with her close friend and dealer, she does her best not to rock the boat too hard. Told with Colwin’s unique humor and incisive characterization, this is a story about friendship within a marriage and outside of it. A Vintage Short.

Comment rassasier une horde d'invités affamés ?Déguiser les légumes pour duper les enfants ?Concilier une infinité de régimes alimentaires autour d'un bon repas, dans la joie et la bonne humeur ?Laurie Colwin, écrivaine à succès mais aussi épouse, mère et bonne copine, était passionnée de cuisine. Celle de tous les jours, conciliable avec les activités multiples d'une femme moderne et émancipée. Dans son style inimitable, entre humour et bienveillance, elle nous livre au fil de ses délicieuses recettes quelques confidences sur sa drôle de vie : rendez-vous galants (calamiteux), soirées (endiablées), dîners (inoubliables) et échecs (à ne pas reproduire)...Dans ses mémoires culinaires qui se lisent comme un bon roman, la plus attachante des auteures nous prouve que cuisiner c'est aimer, et célèbre le pouvoir salvateur des bons petits plats.Un ouvrage culte enfin traduit, pour rire et saliver.