num_pages: 416
description: Manhattan, 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 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. 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.
language: English
title: The Pursuit of Happiness
titlecomplete: The Pursuit of Happiness
genres: Drama, Historical, Roman, Chick Lit, The United States Of America, Novels, Romance, Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Fiction
ratings_count: 6409
places: Manhattan, New York City, New York
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Prix littéraire du Festival du cinéma américain de Deauville
publisher: Random House UK