The Collected Stories (Passion and Affect; The Lone Pilgrim; Another Marvelous Thing)
✍ Scribed by Colwin, Laurie
- Book ID
- 109904931
- Publisher
- Open Road Media
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 3 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781504048279
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
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...