Good Riddance, Lipman Elinor

Автор: Lipman Elinor
Название: On Turpentine Lane
ISBN: 1328745589 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781328745583
Издательство: Hachette Book Group
Цена: 10440.00 T
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"Light and tight, On Turpentine Lane is constructed with an almost scary mastery."--New York Times Book Review

"A diverting delight."--People

" Lipman] has a way of crafting books so utterly charming that you want to set up residence inside them...On Turpentine Lane quickly becomes a friend."--Seattle Times

At thirty-two, Faith Frankel has returned to her claustro-suburban hometown, where she writes institutional thank-you notes for her alma mater. It's a peaceful life, really, and surely with her recent purchase of a sweet bungalow on Turpentine Lane her life is finally on track. Never mind that her fiance is off on a crowdfunded cross-country walk, too busy to return her texts (but not too busy to post photos of himself with a different woman in every state). And never mind her witless boss, or a mother who lives too close, or a philandering father who thinks he's Chagall.
When she finds some mysterious artifacts in the attic of her new home, she wonders whether anything in her life is as it seems. What good fortune, then, that Faith has found a friend in affable, collegial Nick Franconi, officemate par excellence . . .
Elinor Lipman may well have invented the screwball romantic comedy for our era, and here she is at her sharpest and best. On Turpentine Lane is funny, poignant, and a little bit outrageous.

"A light but serious antidote to what ails us all these days."--Washington Post

"Delightful I read it in one day--truly a peak reading experience. Every page was packed with wonders."--Maria Semple

Автор: Lipman Elinor
Название: I Can`t Complain: (All Too) Personal Essays
ISBN: 0544227905 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780544227903
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 13150.00 T
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Описание: "Lipman is always in top form as an essayist." - New York Times Book Review

In her two decades of writing, Elinor Lipman has populated her fictional universe with characters so utterly real that we feel like they're old friends. Now she shares an even more intimate world with us--her own--in essays that offer a candid, charming take on modern life. Looking back and forging ahead, she considers the subjects that matter most: childhood and condiments, long marriage and solo living, career and politics.

In these stories you'll find the lighthearted as well as the serious and profound. Whether for Lipman's longtime readers or those who love the essays of Nora Ephron or Anna Quindlen, I Can't Complain is a diverting delight.

"Engaging and moving . . . Whether or not one is a Lipman fan before reading this collection, he or she most certainly will be by the time the final page is turned." - Publishers Weekly

"Full of wit and charm, along with some trenchant observations."- Seattle Times

"A feast of bite-sized morsels of humor and wisdom." - Kirkus Reviews

Автор: Lipman, Elinor
Название: My latest grievance
ISBN: 0755329422 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780755329427
Издательство: Hodder
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Цена: 8090.00 T
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Описание: `A jewel...brings together the rare combination of intelligence, wit and wisdom` Carol Shields

Автор: Lipman Elinor
Название: Good Riddance
ISBN: 1432863282 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781432863289
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 32180.00 T
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Описание: The delightful new romantic comedy from Elinor Lipman, in which one woman's trash becomes another woman's treasure, with deliriously entertaining results.

Daphne Maritch doesn't quite know what to make of the heavily annotated high school yearbook she inherits from her mother, who held this relic dear. Too dear. The late June Winter Maritch was the teacher to whom the class of '68 had dedicated its yearbook, and in turn she went on to attend every reunion, scribbling notes and observations after each one--not always charitably--and noting who overstepped boundaries of many kinds.

In a fit of decluttering (the yearbook did not, Daphne concluded, "spark joy"), she discards it when she moves to a small New York City apartment. But when it's found in the recycling bin by a busybody neighbor/documentary filmmaker, the yearbook's mysteries--not to mention her own family's--take on a whole new urgency, and Daphne finds herself entangled in a series of events both poignant and absurd.

Good Riddance is a pitch-perfect, whip-smart new novel from an "enchanting, infinitely witty yet serious, exceptionally intelligent, wholly original, and Austen-like stylist" (Washington Post).