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The Pursuit of Happiness

of Douglas Kennedy (Goodreads Author)

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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.

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Book Details

  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 656 pages
  • Publisher Arrow
  • Publication Date May 2nd 2002
  • First Publication 10/30/01
  • Language English
  • ISBN 9780099439844
  • Edition Not informed
  • Category Fiction
  • Scenario ['Manhattan, New York City, New York (United States)']

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