Isabel's Bed by Elinor Lipman

Isabel's Bed by Elinor Lipman

When Harriet Mahoney first saw it, Isabel Krug's bed was covered in sheared sheep and littered with celebrity biographies. The unpublished, fortyish, and recently jilted Harriet had fled wintry Manhattan in response to a mysterious ad in the New York Review of Books: Book in progress? Why not share my Cape Cod retreat? Roomy and peaceful--your life will be your own. In a room with a view atop a Truro dune, Harriet starts on a different path to fulfillment by ghostwriting The Isabel Krug Story, based on the sexy blonde's tabloid past--specifically, a nasty night in Greenwich, Connecticut, when Guy Van Vleet died and Isabel lived to tell about it. Unusually talented in the man department, Isabel revamps and inspires Harriet as they gear up to tell all. Life according to Isabel is a soap-opera extravaganza, an experience to be swallowed whole--and the attitude is catching.

Elinor Lipman is the author of numerous novels, including On Turpentine Lane, The View from Penthouse B, The Inn at Lake Devine, The Pursuit of Alice Thrift, and Then She Found Me (a 2008 major motion picture written, directed and starring Helen Hunt); a collection of stories, Into Love and Out Again; an essay collection, I Can't Complain: (All Too) Personal Essays; and Tweet Land of Liberty: Irreverent Rhymes from the Political Circus. She has been called the diva of dialogue (People) and the last urbane romantic (Chicago Tribune). Book Magazine said of The Pursuit of Alice Thrift, like Jane Austen, the past master of the genre, Lipman isn't only out for laughs. She serves up social satire, too, that's all the more trenchant for being deftly drawn.

Her essays have appeared in the Boston Globe Magazine, Gourmet, Chicago Tribune, and The New York Times' Writers on Writing series. She received the New England Booksellers' 2001 fiction award for a body of work and a 2007 lifetime achievement award from NELINET (New England Library and Information Network), created to recognize the contributions of an individual associated with New England who has significantly advanced the arts and letters.

SKU	GOR006354891
ISBN 13	9780671015640
ISBN 10	0671015648
Title	Isabel's Bed
Author	Elinor Lipman
Condition	Very Good
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Washington Square Press
Year published	1998-05-01
Number of pages	400
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