Pursuit of Happiness (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781439199121)

This international bestseller tells the incredible and heartbreaking love story of Sara and Jack as they learn to understand their differences in postwar New York.

"Kennedy tells his epic tale with a keen eye and brisk pace.... a winningly sincere love story." --Publishers Weekly

Manhattan, Thanksgiving eve, 1945.

The war is 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, outspoken young woman, starting to make her way in the big city.And then in walked Jack Malone, a U.S. Army journalist just back from a defeated Germany, a man whose world view was vastly different than that of Eric and his friends.

This chance meeting between Sara and Jack and the choices they both made in the wake of it would eventually have profound consequences, both for themselves and for those closest to them for decades afterwards.

Set amidst the dynamic optimism of postwar New York and the subsequent nightmare of the McCarthy era, The Pursuit of Happiness is a great, tragic love story; a tale of divided loyalties, decisive moral choices and the random workings of destiny.

Author: Douglas Kennedy
ISBN-10: 1439199124
ISBN-13: 9781439199121
Publisher: Atria Books
Language: English
Published: 10/19/2010
Pages: 592
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.50d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/30/2010 pg. 30
People Weekly 11/01/2010 pg. 49