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Book Review of Happy all the time: A novel (Contemporary American fiction)

Happy all the time: A novel (Contemporary American fiction)
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THIS DELIGHTFUL COMEDY OF MANNERS AND MORALS IS ABOUT ROMANTIC FRIENDSHIP, ROMANTIC MARRIAGE, AND ROMANTIC LOVE-ABOUT FOUR PEOPLE WHO ARE GOODHEARTED AND SANE, LUCKY AND GIFTED, AND WHO FIND ONE ANOTHER, KNOWING THAT HAPPINESS IS AN ART FORM THAT REQUIRES ENERGY, DISCIPLINE, AND TALENT. GUIDO AND HOLLY, AND VINCENT AND MISTY, DEAL WITH JEALOUSY ESTRANGEMENT, AND OTHER PEILS INVOLVED IN THE SEARCH FOR LOVE. IN THIS JOYOUS BOOK, LAURIE COLWIN SHOWS THAT HAPPINESS-AND EVEN MARRIAGE-ARE POSSIBLE IN OUR TIME.