The Pursuit Of Happiness
  • Published: 7 June 2002
  • ISBN: 9780099415374
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 656
  • RRP: $24.99

The Pursuit Of Happiness

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7 Jun 2002
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The critically acclaimed bestseller from the number one bestselling author of Five Days, The Moment and A Special Relationship. A powerful romantic novel set in the tumultuous world of post-war America.

The critically acclaimed bestseller from the number one bestselling author of The Moment and A Special Relationship. A powerful romantic novel set in the tumultuous world of post-war America.

New York, 1945 - Sara Smythe, a young, beautiful and intelligent woman, ready to make her own way in the big city, attends her brother's Thanksgiving Eve party. As the party gets into full swing, in walks Jack Malone, a US Army journalist back from a defeated Germany and a man unlike any Sara has ever met before - one who is destined to change Sara's future forever.

But finding love isn't the same as finding happiness - as Sara and Jack soon find out. In post-war America chance meetings aren't always as they seem, and people's choices can often have profound repercussions. Sara and Jack find they are subject to forces beyond their control and that their destinies are formed by more than just circumstance. In this world of intrigue and emotional conflict, Sara must fight to survive - against Jack, as much as for him.

In this mesmerising tale of longing and betrayal, The Pursuit of Happiness is a great tragic love story; a tale of divided loyalties, decisive moral choices, and the random workings of destiny.
  • Published: 7 June 2002
  • ISBN: 9780099415374
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 656
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Douglas Kennedy

Douglas Kennedy's previous thirteen novels include the critically acclaimed bestsellers The Big Picture, The Pursuit of Happiness, A Special Relationship and The Moment. He is also the author of three highly-praised travel books. The Big Picture was filmed with Romain Duris and Catherine Deneuve; The Woman in the Fifth with Ethan Hawke and Kristin Scott Thomas.

His work has been translated into twenty-two languages. In 2007 he was awarded the French decoration of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and in 2009 the inaugural Grand Prix de Figaro. Born in Manhattan in 1955, he has two children and currently divides his time between London, Paris, Berlin, Maine and New York.

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Isabelle in the Afternoon
The Great Wide Open
The Heat of Betrayal
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Praise for The Pursuit Of Happiness

Whippman argues persuasively that happiness is something that emerges from the quality of relationships we have with others

TLS

This is the novel against which the rest of the year's output demands to be judged

Express on Sunday

Kennedy cannot help but write grippingly, and he weaves threads of love and betrayal into a thrillingly masterful ending

Observer

This superb story of divided loyalties and personal tragedy will heave you pinned to your seat

Woman & Home

Curl up and enjoy

Spectator

A triumph

Mail on Sunday

Kennedy really can tell a story... the twists in the plot are perfectly timed to keep the pages turning

The Times

This is a book that demands attention, gripping from the first pages to the closing chapters

Marie Claire

This is the kind of writing that isn't supposed to be written anymore - a stunning conflation of individual destiny with the broad sweeps of history... Let the hyperbole fall - this is the novel against which the rest of the year's output demands to be judged

Express on Sunday
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