All rights reserved, including without limitation the right to reproduce this ebook or any portion thereof in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of the publisher.
These are works of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Laurie Colwin wishes to thank the National Endowment for the Arts for its generous support.
“Frank and Billy” and “French Movie” originally appeared in Cosmopolitan. “A Little Something” originally appeared in New Woman. “Another Marvelous Thing,” “A Country Wedding,” “A Couple of Old Flames” (originally entitled “Old Flames”), and “Swan Song” originally appeared in The New Yorker. “My Mistress” originally appeared in Playboy.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc., for permission to reprint an excerpt from “Falling in Love Is Never as Simple” by Randall Jarrell from The Complete Poems by Randall Jarrell. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc.
Copyright © 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986 by Laurie Colwin
Cover design by Mimi Bark
ISBN: 978-1-4976-7378-6
This edition published in 2014 by Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
345 Hudson Street
New York, NY 10014