For longtime fans and new readers alike, Read, Love, Repeat: Three Novels by Elinor Lipman collects three beloved works (My Latest Grievance, The Family Man, The View from Penthouse B) by the "enchanting, infinitely witty yet serious, exceptionally intelligent, wholly original, and Austen-like stylist"* Elinor Lipman. (*Fay Weldon, The Washington Post)MY LATEST GRIEVANCEMy Latest Grievance stars the beguiling teenager Frederica Hatch, the "Eloise of Dewing College." Born and raised in the dormitory of this small women's college and chafing under the care of "the most annoyingly evenhanded parental team in the history of civilization, " Frederica is starting to feel that her life is stiflingly snug. That all changes with the arrival on campus of a new dorm mother, the glamorous Laura Lee French, the frenetic center of her own universe. THE FAMILY MAN A hysterical phone call from Henry Archer's ex-wife and a familiar face in a photograph upend his well-ordered life and bring him back into contact with the child he adored, a short-term stepdaughter from a misbegotten marriage long ago. Henry is a lawyer, an old-fashioned man, gay, successful, lonely. Thalia is now twenty-nine, an actress-hopeful, estranged from her newly widowed eccentric mother-Denise, Henry's ex. Hoping it will lead to better things for her career, Thalia agrees to pose as the girlfriend of a horror-movie luminary who is down on his romantic luck. When Thalia and her complicated social life move into the basement of Henry's Upper West Side townhouse, she finds a champion in her long-lost father, and he finds new life-and maybe even new love-in the commotion. THE VIEW FROM PENTHOUSE B Unexpectedly widowed Gwen-Laura Schmidt is still mourning her husband, Edwin, when her older sister Margot invites her to join forces as roommates in Margot's luxurious Greenwich Village apartment. For Margot, divorced amid scandal (hint: her husband was a fertility doctor) and then made Ponzi-poor, it's a chance to shake Gwen out of her grief and help make ends meet. To further this effort, she enlists a third boarder, the handsome, cupcake-baking Anthony. As the three swap moneymaking schemes and timid Gwen ventures back out into the dating world, the arrival of Margot's paroled ex in the efficiency apartment downstairs creates not just complications but the chance for all sorts of unexpected forgiveness. A sister story about love, loneliness, and new life in middle age from one of our finest comic writers.

Read, Love, Repeat - Three Novels by Elinor Lipman

From the beloved and acclaimed novelist, a collection of witty, moving essays. 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. Here you'll find the lighthearted: a celebration of four decades of All My Children, a reflection on being Jewish in heavily Irish-Catholic Lowell on St. Patrick's Day, a hilariously unflinching account of her tiptoe into online dating. But she also tackles the serious and profound in eloquent stories of unexpected widowhood and caring for elderly parents that use her struggles to illuminate ours. 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.

I Can't Complain - (All Too) Personal Essays

A hysterical phone call from Henry Archer's ex-wife and a familiar face in a photograph upend his well-ordered life and bring him back into contact with the child he adored, a short-term stepdaughter from a misbegotten marriage long ago. Henry is a lawyer, an old-fashioned man, gay, successful, lonely. Thalia is now twenty-nine, an actress-hopeful, estranged from her newly widowed eccentric mother-Denise, Henry's ex. Hoping it will lead to better things for her career, Thalia agrees to pose as the girlfriend of a horror-movie luminary who is down on his romantic luck. When Thalia and her complicated social life move into the basement of Henry's Upper West Side townhouse, she finds a champion in her long-lost father, and he finds new life-and maybe even new love-in the commotion.

The Family Man

The ladies man

Mes narrateurs ont tendance à être des femmes à faible estime de soi, donc je peux les envoyer à l'école de charme.

Je porte un podomètre, visant cinq miles par jour - ne soyez pas trop impressionné; Cela comprend la promenade dans ma maison et mes achats de restauration.

Ce fut une leçon notable, même pour quelqu'un qui avait été nourri d'un régime quotidien de leçons en italique: que les gens en hautes lieux, les luminaires titulaires de diplômes avancés en classiques et en possession d'excellentes manières, peuvent vous décevoir aussi profondément que n'importe qui d'autre.

Je regarde le golf à la télévision, bien que je ne golf pas - sauf pour les visites dans le practice en poussées.

Un des premiers éditeurs a qualifié mes livres de "comédie romantique pour adultes intelligents". Je pense que les gens les voient comme drôles mais gentils. Je n'ai pas l'intention d'écrire ni drôle ni gentil, mais c'est une voix qu'ils aiment, excentrique comme moi... Et vous savez, les gens aiment les fins heureuses.

Cinq cents mots par jour est ce que je vise. Et je ne passe pas au chapitre suivant avant d'avoir poli, poli et raffiné celui sur lequel je travaille.

J'ai été presque licencié de mon deuxième emploi, qui écrivait des communiqués de presse pour la station de télévision publique de Boston.

J'étais un gardien itinérant dans l'équipe de basket-ball pour filles du Lowell Hebrew Community Community Center tout au long du lycée. Ma spécialité était de voler le ballon, mais mon seul coup de feu a été un licenciement.

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