- Fiction, Fiction in English, Friendship, Marriage
The courtship of Vincent Cardworthy and Misty Berkowitz and the marriage of Holly Stergis and Guido Morris are marked by practical concerns, romance, surprises, luck, and no upper hands.
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Classical in form, spare, warm and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Laurie Colwin
- First published
- 1978
- Pages
- 220
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, The Leisure Circle, G. K. Hall
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9780671495879
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“Guido Morris and Vincent Cardworthy were third cousins.”
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