http://www.abebooks.com/blog/index.php/2013/02/13/25-of-the-best-love-stories/ AbeBooks book blog Fri, 12 Apr 2013 20:51:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.abebooks.com/blog/index.php/2013/02/13/25-of-the-best-love-stories/comment-page-1/#comment-259693 Aging Lit Major Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:57:39 +0000 http://www.abebooks.com/blog/?p=18357#comment-259693 I recommend Happy All the Time, by Laurie Colwin, a funny, smart novel that for me comes the closest by far of any late 20th century American work to capturing Jane Austen-like magic. I’d also toss in Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love. And, I can’t think of the author’s name, but Farm Fatale is a riot, satirizing contemporary British material culture and romantic misadventures.

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