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A Big Storm Knocked It Over: A Novel
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A Big Storm Knocked It Over: A Novel

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“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 It

In 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.


LanguageEnglish
PublisherHarperCollins
Release dateJul 14, 2015
ISBN9780062434906
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Laurie Colwin

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

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  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    The 80s by Laurie Colwin: all sexual harassment and anxiety disorders and so much class envy. She writes a nice sentence, and Janey and Edie's snarky banter is charming, but otherwise, ugh. I enjoyed the bits of vintage publishing detail -- apparently Bembo used to be hard to get -- but Jane Louise's neuroses felt like a weight I wanted to get out from under.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    I tried my best, I made it to page 197 and then I just couldn't take it any longer.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I didn't enjoy this one as much as Colwin's other novels I've read; the wit is sparkling as usual, but all the sexual harassment gets to be rather a bit much.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    A couple, no longer young and both coming from unstable childhoods, find themselves married and contemplating parenthood. Told in Colwin's breezy prose, the novel represents the triumph of optimism and faith over the uncertainties of life. While it breaks no new ground from Colwin's early novels, it's a pleasant story with likable characters and wise observations.