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    Passion and Affect

    Laurie Colwin

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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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    Praise for Passion and Affect

    • A writer whose rare gift it was to evoke contentment, satisfaction, and affection - New Yorker

    • Colwin has single-handedly revitalized the short story - Los Angeles Times

    • An infallible recipe for happiness: read as much Laurie Colwin as you can

    • One of the last century's great fiction writers - Electric Literature

    • I've never met a Laurie Colwin book I didn't want to live in. She sees us at our most vulnerable and our most hopeful

    Laurie Colwin

    Laurie Colwin

    Laurie Colwin (1944-1992) was born in Manhattan and raised in Long Island, Chicago and Philadelphia. She attended Bard College and Columbia University and worked as a translator and book editor before selling her first story, at the age of twenty-five, to the New Yorker. She went on to publish eight critically acclaimed works of fiction and two beloved collections of essays and recipes - Home Cooking and More Home Cooking. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, 'if anyone wrote eloquently and magnificently about affairs of the heart, it was Laurie Colwin.

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