A Big Storm Knocked It Over, Laurie Colwin
A Big Storm Knocked It Over, Laurie Colwin
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A Big Storm Knocked It Over
A Novel

Author: Laurie Colwin

Narrator: Rebecca Lowman

Unabridged: 7 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 04/16/2024


Synopsis

“Laurie Colwin’s beautiful final book, A Big Storm Knocked It Over, is funny and moving and rich with complicated happiness—a love story for anyone who tends to overthink things, a comic novel about trying to find a place in the world.” — Maile Meloy, author of Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want ItIn 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 and beloved voices.In her late thirties, Jane Louise Parker has just married a man whose native decency leaves her almost breathless at her good fortune. After the wedding, she returns to work at a small and tony publishing house whose finances are in disarray. Alongside her best friend, Edie, Jane Louise patiently waits to become pregnant, wondering if a baby will provide a sense of rootedness that still seems to elude her. When that longed-for child arrives, it transforms the Parkers’ lives in a way that is as unexpected as it is rapturous.

About Laurie Colwin

Laurie Colwin is the author of five novels: Happy All the Time; Family Happiness; Goodbye Without Leaving; Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object; and A Big Storm Knocked It Over; three collections of short stories: Passion and Affect, Another Marvelous Thing, and The Lone Pilgrim; and two collections of essays: Home Cooking and More Home Cooking. She died in 1992.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Juli

Laurie Colwin is a favorite of mine, and I return to her books again and again. They are not particularly plotted...people live their lives, and Colwin narrates the precise and idiosyncratic details of them. Maybe I just find the depiction of a particular subclass of wealthy-enough New Yorkers gives......more

Goodreads review by Lydia

What a wonderful book. This book is about life, family, love, friendship, marriage and growing old. Jane Louise is just so funny. I laughed out loud several times. Jane Louise's friend Edie is a friend anyone would love to know. Both characters are a hoot. A must read. So sorry this lovely and talen......more