Passion and Affect
by Laurie Colwin
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When Passion and Affect was first published in 1974, Laurie Colwin was anointed as a young writer to watch. Now, a new generation has the opportunity to encounter some of the most charmingly complicated and beautifully drawn characters in modern fiction, including: a music critic whose orderly life is threatened by her flirtation with a married cartographer an ornithologist perplexed by human mating rituals despite his expertise in the natural world two young men, best friends and cousins, show more whose relationship is disrupted by the sudden arrival of Misty Berkowitz in their lives In these fourteen tales, some of which first ran in the New Yorker, Colwin explores love and marriage, friendship and loyalty, and obligation and desire with the compassion and wit that earned her the devotion of legions of readers. show lessTags
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The need for a crazy kind of faith runs like a current through the works of Laurie Colwin and the stories in this collection are no exception. These 14 stories, mostly set in Manhattan and its environs, portray characters negotiating the difficult shoals of love with varying degrees of success. Included are two stories which are the early version of what became Colwin's novel Happy all the time.
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Passion and Affect
- Original publication date
- 1974
- Dedication
- To my parents and to John Serber
- First words
- On the roof of the East Wing of the American Naturalist Museum was a greenhouse, blocked from public view by turrets and facades.
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- 208
- Popularity
- 156,652
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.94)
- Languages
- English, French
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 12
- ASINs
- 2
