The lone pilgrim -- The boyish lover -- Sentimental memory -- A girl skating -- An old-fashioned story -- Intimacy -- Travel -- Delia's father -- A mythological subject -- St. Anthony of the Desert -- The smile beneath the smile -- The achieve of, the mastery of the thing -- Family happiness.
Summary:
This collection of stories about love and privacy is serious, funny, tender, and alive with the elegance and spirit that characterize Laurie Colwin's work.In these stories, the reader moves among young men and women: pianists, historians, book illustrators, architects; women who are composed and inimitably sassy; and men who are magnetic, adventurous in love, or fiendishly elusive. They are people who are experiencing, often for the first time, the starting, enriching, and maddening complications of adult life.
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