Passion and Affect

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Within these 14 hilarious and insightful tales of urban life, you’ll meet: Raiford Phelps, an ornithologist who discovers new patterns of animal behaviour 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.

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‘Colwin wrings magic from ordinary lives’ Entertainment Weekly

Carl thinks that his wife Lucy tells him everything, until he discovers her secret daily habit. She has arranged a part of her life away from him and gone swimming in it.

Patricia plays the same honky-tonk album over and over, while worrying that she’ll never become any less young and heedless, any more willing to get down to what her husband calls “the things of life”.

Elizabeth has an orderly existence up to the day she meets Richard: a slightly wrecked married man on the fringes of middle age who holds her hand as if it is an eggshell.

This sparkling story collection from the adored Laurie Colwin explores love, longing and all we can never know about each other.

A W&N Essential

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Weight 180 g
Dimensions 19.6 × 12.6 × 2 cm
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Cover

Paperback
Pages

224
Language

English
Edition

|Short stories
Dewey

813.54 (edition:23)
Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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