The Pursuit of Happiness

Resumen del libro

It is 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, canny young woman, starting to make her way in the big city. And then in walked a gatecrasher, Jack Malone - 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. 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.

And the effect of their actions would reverberate within their families for decades afterwards. 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.

Biografía del autor

Douglas Kennedy nació en Nueva York en 1955 y ha residido gran parte de su vida en el Reino Unido. Empezó su carrera literaria escribiendo teatro y literatura de viajes y más tarde publicó en medios como The Sunday Times, The Listener, New Statesman o Esquire. Es autor de dieciséis novelas de gran éxito internacional, traducidas a más de veinte lenguas y con diecisiete millones de ejemplares vendidos. Sus novelas más aclamadas son En busca de la felicidad (2018), La sinfonía del azar (2019), Isabelle por la tarde (2021) y El discreto encanto de la vida conyugal (2021). Arpa está recuperando toda la obra del autor estadounidense con objeto de crear la biblioteca Kennedy en castellano. A lo largo de su carrera literaria ha recibido numerosas condecoraciones, entre ellas, la distinción de Caballero de las Artes y las Letras de Francia. Actualmente vive entre Londres, París, Berlín y Nueva York.