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The Pursuit Of Happiness

by Douglas Kennedy (Goodreads Author)

4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 · rating details · 1,737 ratings · 193 reviews

Manhattan, Thanksgiving Eve, 1945. The war was over, and Eric Smythe's party was in full swing. All his clever Greenwich Village friends were there. So too was his sister Sara -- an independent, canny young woman, starting to make her way in the big city. And then in walked a gatecrasher, Jack Malone -- a U. S. Army journalist just back from a defeated Germany, and a man w...more

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Published May 2nd 2002 by Arrow (first published 1990)

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Oct 30, 2012 Ann rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is my 3rd Kennedy book and I'm glad it was much more like the first one I read ("Leaving the World"). I'm impressed, again, that the narrator of this book, like "Leaving," was a woman. Kennedy does a good job of using a woman's voice. I actually forgot that a man wrote it. Is that sexist? I don't know. I just know that he's a good storyteller. There always seems to be dark elements and tortured souls in his novels but not so much that you get depressed and want to give up reading. Instead,...more

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Feb 24, 2011 Denise rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: everyone

Recommended to Denise by: no one...love his other books

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This was my fifth Douglas Kennedy novel, and I was not disappointed. Kennedy is a true story-teller; I can't put his books down! The Pursuit of Happiness takes place in post-WWII and much of the plot revolves around tragic McCarthyism period in U.S. history. Young Sara Smyth moves to New York against her very staid parents' wishes where her older brother, Eric, already resides. Sara meets journalist Jack Malone at a party at Eric's house. They spend one passionate night together and fall in love...more

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Oct 17, 2012 Cindy rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

WOW, WOW, WOW!!!!!!! I found this book interesting on many levels. I, also, found it interesting that I had read another of Kennedy's books a while ago, "A Special Relationship". As I was reading this book, my mind went back to Kennedy's other book, because I, once again, kept thinking, "How can a man write so convincingly about women?". Until I researched Kennedy's other books on "Goodreads", I did not know the other book that kept coming to mind was written by the same author! I have recently...more

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Oct 01, 2011 Ricki Lewis rated it 4 of 5 stars

Pursuit of Happiness is a family saga in which a one-night-stand on the eve of World War II leads to years of longing, unfulfilled relationships, and the wrong people married to each other. Sara Smythe, a writer, spends her life as the lover of the married Jack Malone. They eventually break up when Malone rats on Sara's brother during the McCarthy era.

The compelling story kept me reading, but the organization and the dialog nearly made me stop. On the matter of organization, the book consists m...more

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Apr 10, 2011 Jenn rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011-finished, fiction

Even though this was a pretty long book and there were parts that had me thinking "why am I reading this", this was a very enjoyable read.

This story tells the life mainly of Sara Smythe. I didn't expect the book to be this way but soon found it extremely enjoyable getting to know Sara. Sara was a successful writer yet her life was never complete. She had an immense love for her brother, Eric, and not only were they siblings they were friends. He would get her through many times and visa versa....more

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Apr 12, 2011 Sara rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This was a 99cent special from Nook so I didn't know much about it when I started reading it, but I got so completely absorbed in the story that I couldn't put it down. It's about 500 pages and I read it in about a week. Rarely do I get so engrossed in a book but it was heartfelt, interesting, and good plot twists that I didn't see coming.

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Nov 17, 2012 Michele rated it 5 of 5 stars

This was the first Douglas Kennedy book I read. I thought he must actually be a woman and then checked and realized he really was a man. I was blown away at his dead-on insights into the emotions of women in marriage, divorce, motherhood, grief, etc.

The book opens with a woman's loss of her mother. The roller coaster of emotions she experiences, and the way that loss leads the daughter to review the breakdown of her own marriage was very moving to me. The grief was incredibly raw to me.

And the...more

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May 03, 2012 Michelle added it

Douglas Kennedy has a way of capturing the tumult that is life - the swings between highs and lows, the drama, the staleness, and everything in between - and doing so in such a way that utterly captivates the reader. He does so this time while highlighting one of the darkest periods in American post-war history. While the post-WWII era is typically considered one of bucolic happiness, The Pursuit of Happiness explores the fleeting spirit that is happiness and the challenges faced by everyone dur...more Douglas Kennedy has a way of capturing the tumult that is life - the swings between highs and lows, the drama, the staleness, and everything in between - and doing so in such a way that utterly captivates the reader. He does so this time while highlighting one of the darkest periods in American post-war history. While the post-WWII era is typically considered one of bucolic happiness, The Pursuit of Happiness explores the fleeting spirit that is happiness and the challenges faced by everyone during the very tumultuous McCarthy era.

Mr. Kennedy uses a change in narrators to the maximum effect. The story starts out as Kate is attending the funeral of her mother. Her father passed a long time ago, and as the reader digs into the narrative, Kate is only just beginning to understand and accept how her life has changed now that she is an orphan, albeit an adult orphan with a child of her own. A reader is immediately drawn into Kate's likability. She has just gone through a very tough emotional experience and is still fragile. When Sara enters the scene, as an unknown in her family's past and possible threat, the reader immediately feels protective of Kate. Her unease, concern, fear, and anger becomes the reader's own emotions. Just as the reader gets comfortable and sympathizes with Kate, he switches to Sara telling her story. Gradually, a reader is drawn into dueling emotions as one cannot help but empathize with Kate while at the same time sympathizing with Sara as she shares her painful familial past. This allows the reader to continue to experience Kate's unseen reactions as one's own and drives home the sense of confusion, hurt, wonder, and pity at everything Sara shares.

Mr. Kennedy specializes in addressing little-known or vaguely familiar periods in history and bringing them to life. The Pursuit of Happiness is no different. While taking the reader on an unparalleled emotional roller coaster, Mr. Kennedy includes the horrors inspired by Joseph McCarthy and the Un-American Activities Committee, the fear being named induced in people, what it meant to be blacklisted, and the lengths people were willing to go to avoid being blacklisted. Under Mr. Kennedy's pen, the McCarthyism scare is eerily reminiscent of today's war on terror and the all-encompassing Department of Homeland Security, and for that reason deserves to be studied in depth to ensure that Americans do not fall prey to the same mass hysteria that occurred in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

The Pursuit of Happiness is one of those books that is completely captivating and thoroughly enjoyable throughout all 592 of its pages. In fact, a reader will not mind the length because the story is so well told. Sara, Eric, and Jack's stories become more than words on a page, as their characters have a sense of authenticity and reality that makes it easy for readers to believe that this is a work of non-fiction. His ability to understand his characters and allow readers to understand them just as well is only one of the perks of the novel. The others include understanding more of the hysteria that took over the country, the difficulties that befell women and homosexuals at this most conservative of periods, and a story that will affect a reader deeply. As this is the second novel of Mr. Kennedy's of which I have had the pleasure of reading, he has grown into one of my favorite modern-day authors, and I eagerly anticipate his next novel.

Acknowledgements: Thank you to Atria Books for my review copy!(less)

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Oct 14, 2010 Emily rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: greatbooks

Somehow, whenever I'm sick I find myself reading a WWII novel, and really loving it...

(Not sure what the cause/effect relationship is here, but I'm not really complaining.)

Actually, the main story of this novel is set in the period of time immediately following WWII through the height of the McCarthy Era. Two people meet one night at a party, but life separates them and puts them on paths that really aren't headed the same way. Usually, when two characters are presented as "soul mates," I don't...more

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Nov 10, 2012 Dana rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I have read only two Women's Literature in my shelf of mostly young adult novels, and this is actually the second one. Okay so I'm not particularly the target audience for this book, but I did understand it in so many levels. I expected it to be thoroughly focused on motherhood and mid-30's romance. What I didn't expect is for it to be quite tragic. It is very moving. There a number of passages, (a lot actually), that I took note of because they knocked some sense into me. I'm only a couple more...more

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Jul 28, 2011 Robert Starner added it · review of another edition

An excellent story set in the late 40s-50s of New York, told in the truly engaging voice of Sara Smythe as she reveals her one-night love at first sight encounter with military journalist Jack Malone and the changes in her life and her family. Kennedy has an amazing gift in creating remarkable female characters. The story does come down a bit when she reunites with Jack some time later in the story and her choice is somewhat surprising yet without it the rest of the book would not be. HUAC rears...more

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Jul 28, 2011 Sophie rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: my-current-top-20-favourites

Another winner - a compulsive page-turner. The author has a knack to spinning a compelling story with strong characters. Interesting that the protagonist is female, the author male. And the character of Sara is pretty convincing, especially poignant the relationship with her brother Eric.

Reminded me of 'the great American novel' - Sister Carrie or the other Dreiser one - An American Tragedy. Big themes, strong characters facing truly heartbreaking circumstances. Strong insight into the human con...more

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Jan 04, 2013 Ivana rated it 2 of 5 stars

I was torn between giving it one and two stars. The story is ok, it keeps you wanting to know more.... I read it in 2 days (and it is a fairly large book, over 500 pages). Now, having said that, I could have done without numerous, short, unnecessary sentences. For example: "I walked in. I sat on the couch. I made coffee. I took a big sip. I refilled my coffee. I took another sip. I went into the bedroom. I fell onto the bed. I pulled up covers..." You get my point? There are way too many sentenc...more

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Mar 02, 2011 Bookmaniac70 rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is my first Douglas Kennedy`s book and I`m afraid we didn`t get along with the writer:-)). In this novel,if I may borrow a citation from another Goodreads member`s review, everything is laid on the plate before the reader and nothing left to his own judgement and interpetation. The story develops within a long time span and very often I was wishing the writer had cut it a bit shorter and more synthesised.The main characters seemed too stiff and rigid. Actually, none of them underwent some t...more

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Mar 08, 2009 Cécile rated it 4 of 5 stars

Je serai Mme Kennedy, je m'inquiéterai de la propension de son mari à écrire avec autant de dévouement (et de talent) sur la lente agonie des histoires d'amour, sur la trahison des femmes par les hommes, sur l'enfer que peut devenir le couple. Comme dans Une relation dangereuse, La Poursuite du bonheur (quel beau titre d'ailleurs !) parle d'une histoire d'amour qui va mal tourner. Mais cette fois, l'excellent écrivain délaisse le Londres des années 90 pour l'Amérique du McCarthysme, cette terrib...more Je serai Mme Kennedy, je m'inquiéterai de la propension de son mari à écrire avec autant de dévouement (et de talent) sur la lente agonie des histoires d'amour, sur la trahison des femmes par les hommes, sur l'enfer que peut devenir le couple. Comme dans Une relation dangereuse, La Poursuite du bonheur (quel beau titre d'ailleurs !) parle d'une histoire d'amour qui va mal tourner. Mais cette fois, l'excellent écrivain délaisse le Londres des années 90 pour l'Amérique du McCarthysme, cette terrible période qui transforma New York et Washington en terrain de jeu pour chasse aux sorcières.
Pourtant son récit commence dans le Manhattan post-11 septembre, par un décès, celui de la mère de Kate, une quadra divorcée, mère d'un petit garçon, pas vraiment heureuse. Lors de l'enterrement, elle remarque une vieille femme qui l'observe et qui ne tarde pas à entrer en contact avec elle. Il s'agit de Sara.
Au bout d'une centaine de page, le récit de Kate s'arrête et commence alors l'histoire de Sara Smythe, une WASP qui, un soir de Thanksgiving 1945, a le coup de foudre pour un inconnu du nom de Jack Malone (non, pas le gros de FBI : Portés Disparus !). Ce journaliste (une autre obsession de Kennedy, tout le monde est journaliste) apparaît dans sa vie aussi vite qu'il disparaît mais on est alors loin de se douter de tout ce qui nous attend... A travers son récit qui tient sur 500 pages (Kate reprenant la main pour les 100 dernières), Sara va raconter sa vie à Kate et lui faire comprendre à quel point elles sont liées.
Douglas Kennedy réussit le tour de force d'écrire un roman dans le roman, un très bel hymne à la vie, à la mort, à l'amour, dépeint une époque troublée avec un véritable souci du détail et brosse le portrait d'une femme mise à mal par la vie mais qui n'aura de cesse de se relever. Comme dans Une relation dangereuse, le récit souffre de quelques temps morts et d'une fin un peu rapide dans son exécution mais que c'est bien écrit, que c'est envoûtant. Cher Dougie, on va se revoir !!!

"On n'a jamais conscience de l'instant inexplicable qui décide de toute une vie"

Douglas Kennedy
La Poursuite du Bonheur
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Cécile Je serai Mme Kennedy, je m'inquiéterai de la propension de son mari à écrire avec autant de dévouement (et de talent) sur la lente agonie des histoire...more Je serai Mme Kennedy, je m'inquiéterai de la propension de son mari à écrire avec autant de dévouement (et de talent) sur la lente agonie des histoires d'amour, sur la trahison des femmes par les hommes, sur l'enfer que peut devenir le couple. Comme dans Une relation dangereuse, La Poursuite du bonheur (quel beau titre d'ailleurs !) parle d'une histoire d'amour qui va mal tourner. Mais cette fois, l'excellent écrivain délaisse le Londres des années 90 pour l'Amérique du McCarthysme, cette terrible période qui transforma New York et Washington en terrain de jeu pour chasse aux sorcières.
Pourtant son récit commence dans le Manhattan post-11 septembre, par un décès, celui de la mère de Kate, une quadra divorcée, mère d'un petit garçon, pas vraiment heureuse. Lors de l'enterrement, elle remarque une vieille femme qui l'observe et qui ne tarde pas à entrer en contact avec elle. Il s'agit de Sara.
Au bout d'une centaine de page, le récit de Kate s'arrête et commence alors l'histoire de Sara Smythe, une WASP qui, un soir de Thanksgiving 1945, a le coup de foudre pour un inconnu du nom de Jack Malone (non, pas le gros de FBI : Portés Disparus !). Ce journaliste (une autre obsession de Kennedy, tout le monde est journaliste) apparaît dans sa vie aussi vite qu'il disparaît mais on est alors loin de se douter de tout ce qui nous attend... A travers son récit qui tient sur 500 pages (Kate reprenant la main pour les 100 dernières), Sara va raconter sa vie à Kate et lui faire comprendre à quel point elles sont liées.
Douglas Kennedy réussit le tour de force d'écrire un roman dans le roman, un très bel hymne à la vie, à la mort, à l'amour, dépeint une époque troublée avec un véritable souci du détail et brosse le portrait d'une femme mise à mal par la vie mais qui n'aura de cesse de se relever. Comme dans Une relation dangereuse, le récit souffre de quelques temps morts et d'une fin un peu rapide dans son exécution mais que c'est bien écrit, que c'est envoûtant. Cher Dougie, on va se revoir !!!

"On n'a jamais conscience de l'instant inexplicable qui décide de toute une vie"

Douglas Kennedy
La Poursuite du Bonheur
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Jan 09, 2009 Karen rated it 5 of 5 stars

I picked this up in New Zealand. My first Douglas Kennedy experience - and definitely not my last! This guy can write! Pursuit of Happiness is written in the first person from a women's perspective, set in America during the McCarthy era. It tells the tales of the ups and downs of Sara, her brother Eric, and Jack Malone - a wayward stranger who turns up at Eric's New Years eve party.

I couldn't put this book down. Until it ended. Then I went to amazon.co.uk and ordered more Douglas Kennedy!

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Apr 29, 2013 Nicole rated it 4 of 5 stars

Unlike 'A Special Relationship' and 'Leaving The World', 'The Persuit of Happiness' took several pages of reading until I was fully engrossed. The more I read though, the more I couldn't put the book down. As other readers have rightly pointed out, Douglas Kennedy has certainly refined writing as female incredibly convincingly - not that I'm sure it really matters, as at the end of the day I would read any of Kennedy's books - whether written in male or female form. There were many parts of the...more

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Feb 06, 2013 Arja rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, politics, history, in-finnish

Bra story (kärlek och politik) med trovärdiga personer. Historien spelas i efterkrigstidens New York/USA där McCarthys jakt efter vänsteraktivister skildras ocensurerat; hur jakten förstörde livet för många. Detta är tydligen fortfarande så känsligt i USA, att boken publicerades i USA förran flera år efter att den blivit väldigt populär i Europa. Författaren är alltså amerikan och han försökte publicera boken (hos flera bokförlag) i första hand i USA. Men till slut vann marknadskrafterna och bok...more

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Jul 24, 2011 Wendy Ewurum rated it 5 of 5 stars

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The story starts of with the death of Dorothy, Kate’s mother. We see Kate trying to come to terms with the death of a complicated woman whom she loved but never understood. It is only after her mother’s death that she catches a glimpse of the magnitude of the sadness and loneliness that overshadowed 40 years her mother’s life. She learns this through a manuscript written by Sara whose life was intricately entwined with that of Dorothy for 40 years. Dorothy married and lived with a man...more

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Dec 16, 2010 Jerome Parisse rated it 3 of 5 stars

I watched The Pursuit of Happyness yesterday, the 2006 movie by director Gabriele Muccino. I saw it in Chinese. It was fun to hear Will Smith speak Chinese, but that’s not my point here. The title of the movie struck me. Not because of the “y” in happyness, which comes from a spelling mistake on a street poster, but because of the similarity of the title with a novel by Douglas Kennedy. But this is where the similarity ends. Both stories are very different. In Kennedy’s novel, Sara, an independe...more I watched The Pursuit of Happyness yesterday, the 2006 movie by director Gabriele Muccino. I saw it in Chinese. It was fun to hear Will Smith speak Chinese, but that’s not my point here. The title of the movie struck me. Not because of the “y” in happyness, which comes from a spelling mistake on a street poster, but because of the similarity of the title with a novel by Douglas Kennedy. But this is where the similarity ends. Both stories are very different. In Kennedy’s novel, Sara, an independent, smart young woman, falls in love with Jack Malone, a U.S. Army journalist just back from defeated Germany. This is the beginning of a beautiful, yet tragic, love story. The book is wonderfully written (Kennedy at his best) and uses McCarthy’s post-war witch-hunt as background, which makes it even more interesting. The pursuit of Happyness, on the other hand, is the story of Christopher Gardner, a black American man struggling to make both ends meet, with a wife and a son to look after. Very soon, his wife leaves him, and covered by heavy debts ranging from unpaid parking tickets to rent, bad investments, and taxes, Gardner starts sleeping on the streets with his son. He manages however to enter a brokerage firm as intern before being offered a full-time job. This is a classic story based on the American values of entrepreneurship, persistence, money and self-made wonder. Very well. But this is where I start to question the title of the film. There is no denying that money contributes to happiness, and were we in Gardner’s situation, we would be depressed or suicidal. Gardner isn’t. By the end of the movie, all is well: he is offered a permanent position, and is making millions. What about his wife? She is not mentioned anymore. What about his heart? What about his boy, seeing his parents yell at each other, having his mother walk away on them, his father being treated like a piece of rubbish and sleeping on the streets? Zilch. The movie ends on a simple note mentioning that a few years later Gardner founds his own company and, after selling a minority stake in it, earns millions. This is where I want to puke.
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Jun 01, 2010 Valeriane rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Un beau souvenir que va me laisser mon premier livre de Kennedy Douglas. C'était une réelle poursuite du bonheur que de son plonger dans cette lecture. Plus de 770 pages dans lesquelles j'ai été engloutie. J'ai totalement dévoré l'histoire de Sara Smythe. De rebondissement en rebondissement, l'auteur tient le lecteur en haleine. De longs chapitres qui se terminent en point d'orgue. Une suite d'évènements qui jalonnent une vie. L'histoire débute dans les années 90, avec le décès de la mère de Kat...more

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Oct 05, 2012 Minutepapillon rated it 2 of 5 stars

Agréable mais répétitif dans le genre. Pour avoir lu Leaving the world juste avant, je peux dire que j'ai regretté d'y avoir retrouvé des tournures d'événements similaires: ie *l'avocat sans prétention qui se trouve face aux grosses pointures et trouve sa cliente tellement intègre et admirable qu'il est prêt à la facturer à peine *Les sommes d'argent qui tombent du ciel et qu'on accepte d'abord à moitié mais qui finalement arrange bien deux ex machina et tout le bazar.... etc...

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Mar 20, 2011 Dupsie Oriyomi rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites

This was a very interesting story. I thoroughly enjoyed this story, Mr Kennedy wrote this story so well, it felt like I knew the characters initimately. Eric is still my favourite character, he stuck to his guns till death. I loved his relationship with his sister. While I do not accept any form of extra-martial, the relationship between Sara and Jack was beautiful. I felt that Sara did make some very stupid mistakes and blamed it on Jack. Nonetheless, this was a very beautiful story, the ending...more

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Dec 11, 2011 Marie V. rated it 4 of 5 stars

Edith Wharton could have written this novel had she been living at the time. Set during the end of WWII and the McCarthy era. The story starts out in the present, but soon the minor character turns out to be the main character as she tells the story of the people and events her life. Life buffets these characters quite a bit and it is interesting to see how the world, their social class, and their own character leads them down their different paths.

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Apr 07, 2011 Martha rated it 3 of 5 stars

I don't have an opinion as yet. I have met the author at a dude ranch in Wyoming. A very charming person who knows how to tell a story. I just completed this book and on finishing it, the whole story makes sense as well as the way it's organized. As I was reading it, I had trouble figuring out why in the world it was arranged like that. It's a good book if you like a bit of diversion from the topic and plenty of descriptive writing. I liked the story of love at first sight, love lost, love found...more

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Sep 28, 2011 Jean rated it 5 of 5 stars

Although this is a re-read for me, I found it as captivating the second time around as I did at the first reading.
At Kate's mother's funeral, she notices a mysterious, elegant woman standing near her mother's coffin and again later on the outskirts at the graveside. Kate later learns how intricately this stranger's life was interwoven with her own.
In postwar Manhattan a chance encounter between Sara Smythe and a handsome gatecrasher at her brother Eric's thanksgiving party sets off a chain of ev...more

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Feb 22, 2011 Michael rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: drama, long-book

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Apr 07, 2011 Karin Young rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Just started but loved the beginning - "She stood very erect, her spine refusing to hunch over with age. Her bone structure was flawless. Her skin had stayed smooth. Whatever wrinkles she had didn't cleave her face. Rather, they lent it character, gravitas." Made me want to begin reading - hope it continues to hold my interest!

Sadly it went down hill pretty quickly. Not so much a 'historical' fiction as a fiction with some historical fact badly inserted. Did not enjoy this book. :(

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May 10, 2013 Tea Jovanović rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: editor-of-serbian-edition

Reading this book I fell in love with Kennedy's writing... And bought the rights for his first (and only so far) Serbian edition... Everybody who read the book fell in love as well... but as it usually happens, when I left the publisher nobody continued to take care of "my" author... His books are big bestsellers in France as well and many of his novels made it to big screen...
MUST READ! One of my most valuable "editorial picks"...

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Jan 16, 2013 Rob Innis rated it 4 of 5 stars

Another of Kennedy's written in 1st person female POV - telling the story of girl meets boy, falls in love but boy disappears - only to turn up again later (naturally) and things resume. However, after plenty of obstacles - will they live happily ever after or not? That is what you will have to plough through 646 pages to discover.
The style is fairly easy reading so the pages turn quickly with good dialogue so it moves along without getting too bogged down before it finally gets back to answerin...more

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