The Pursuit of Happiness
About this book
A compulsive read' Kate Atkinson, author of Behind the Scenes at the MuseumManhattan, 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 US 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.
Reader Profile
4.2/5 · 9667 readers · 530 pages · ≈ 9 h 49 m · Moderate
How long does it take to read The Pursuit of Happiness?
About ≈ 9 h 49 m — 530 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is The Pursuit of Happiness?
530 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is The Pursuit of Happiness?
It sits on the Historical Fiction, Romance, History shelves.
Is The Pursuit of Happiness in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Who wrote The Pursuit of Happiness?
Douglas Kennedy.