With her trademark humor and warmth, the beloved author of The Ladies\' Man and The Inn at Lake Devine explores going home again; about finding light in the dark corners of one\'s inhospitable past; about love, golf, and DNA.
She received the New England Booksellers\' 2001 fiction award for a body of work..
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.
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 has been called "the diva of dialogue" (People) and "the last urbane romantic" (Chicago Tribune).
About the Author: Elinor Lipman is the author of seven books: the novels The Pursuit of Alice Thrift, The Dearly Departed, The Ladies\' Man, The Inn at Lake Devine, Isabel\'s Bed, The Way Men Act, Then She Found Me, and a collection of stories, Into Love and Out Again.
Add to the mix a chief of police whose interest in Sunny exceeds his civic duty, and you have the makings of an irresistibly beguiling tale from an author who writes with all the wit and wry authority of a latter-day Jane Austen.
And maybe her mother\'s life was richer than anyone suspected.
Just possibly, Sunny begins to think, she wasn\'t as beleaguered as she felt she was.
Yet allies surface; even high school tormentors have grown up in unforeseen and gratifying ways.
Reentry is to be dreaded; there\'s no hiding in a town with one diner, one doctor, one stop sign, one motel.
The death of Margaret, side by side with her putative fianc , brings Sunny back to the scene of the unhappy adolescence she thought she\'d left behind.
But accidents happen.
Everyone in King George, New Hampshire, loved Margaret Batten, part-time amateur actress, full-time wallflower, and single mother to a now-distant daughter, Sunny.
With her trademark humor and warmth, the beloved author of The Ladies\' Man and The Inn at Lake Devine explores going home again; about finding light in the dark corners of one\'s inhospitable past; about love, golf, and DNA
