The Pursuit Of Happiness

by Douglas Kennedy

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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 whose world-view did not tally with that of Eric and his friends. Set amidst the dynamic optimism of postwar New York and the subsequent nightmare of the McCarthy witch-hunts, The Pursuit of Happiness is a great tragic love story; a tale of divided loyalties, decisive moral choices, and the random workings of destiny.
  • ISBN10 0099439840
  • ISBN13 9780099439844
  • Publish Date 2 May 2002 (first published 5 April 2001)
  • Publish Status Cancelled
  • Out of Print 7 July 2005
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Cornerstone
  • Imprint Arrow Books Ltd
  • Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
  • Pages 656
  • Language English