The Pursuit of Happiness

This international bestseller tells the "romantic, sweeping" (Library Journal) love story of Sara and Jack as they learn to understand their differences in postwar New York.

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 US 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
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 10/19/2010
Pages: 592
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9781439199121

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

About the Author
Douglas Kennedy is the author of several novels, including the international bestsellers The Moment and Five Days. His work has been translated into twenty-two languages, and in 2007 he received the French decoration of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He divides his time among London, New York, and Montreal, and has two children. Find out more at DouglasKennedyNovelist.com.