A big storm knocked it over : a novel / Laurie Colwin.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Colwin, Laurie.

Contributor:

• Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
• Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)
• Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Women--United States--Fiction.
• Women.
• United States.

Genre:

• Fiction.
• Love stories.

Penn Provenance:

• Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
• Malgieri, Nick (donor) (Malgieri Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 259 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

[New York] : HarperCollinsPublishers, [©1993]

Summary:

• Rather late into her thirties, Jane Louise Parker has just gotten married - and to a man whose native decency leaves her almost breathless at her good fortune. Teddy's inclination to occasional brooding silences is really only a small flaw, and Jane Louise always has the distraction of her work as a book designer in a small and very tony publishing house - even if her job all too often seems to involve avoiding becoming the latest conquest of the firm's lewdly charming art director. With her best friend, the flamboyantly talented (and dressed), interracially involved Edie, Jane Louise patiently waits to become pregnant, wondering all the while if a baby will supply the rootedness that still seems to elude her.
• When that longed-for child makes its appearance, it brings a transformation of the Parkers' lives that is as unexpected as it is rapturous, and provides Laurie Colwin with an ideal opportunity to apply her characteristic wit and intelligence to the dizzying experience of motherhood - and to the more unusual forms of families we make for ourselves - in the late twentieth century. A poignant farewell from a much-loved writer, A Big Storm Knocked It Over reminds us again of the singular pleasures afforded by the novel of manners - and of the rare gifts that Laurie Colwin brought to it.

Notes:

• "First Edition."
• "Designed by Jessica Shatan."

Local Notes:

• Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
• Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Nick malgieri.
• Malgieri Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Cited in:

Fiction core collection. 16th ed., p. 116

ISBN:

• 0060170190 :
• 9780060170196

OCLC:

28115927