ELINOR LIPMAN is the author of many books, including 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, Ms. Demeanor, and Every Tom, Dick & Harry, as well as a
collection of stories, Into Love and Out Again. 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.
“Simply, wonderfully, memorably human and therefore complicated and
compelling.... A total treat.” —USA Today
“A witty, satirical novel rich in wry, observant narrative
reminiscent of Jane Austen’s deceptively benign satiric genius.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“The most perfect piece of prose writing to come along in quite a
while.” —Philadelphia Weekly
“The literary equivalent of lemon soufflé, light, tart and
delicious.” —Detroit Free Press
Surgical intern Alice Thrift is, by her own admission, a wallflower. Her mother prefers to think of her as socially autistic. But no man-or woman-is an island, and before Alice knows it, her male roommate, a neighbor, and a kindly doctor begin to drag her from her lifelong, self-inflicted emotional exile. Although this social misfit starts to bond with her new friends, her courtship by a traveling fudge salesman leaves her completely bewildered. At first, Alice comes off as an unsympathetic character, but the more she tries to deal with the world as a detached, clinical observer (and the more she fails), the more sympathetic she becomes. Told in the first person, Lipman's seventh novel (after The Dearly Departed) is both funny and poignant, and it is appropriate for most fiction collections in libraries of all sizes. Lipman fans and readers who enjoy the television series Scrubs will go for this similarly offbeat novel about the quirkiness of the medical world. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 2/1/03.]-Shelley Mosley, Glendale P.L., AZ Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
"Simply, wonderfully, memorably human and therefore complicated and
compelling. . . . A total treat." -USA Today
"A witty, satirical novel rich in wry, observant narrative
reminiscent of Jane Austen's deceptively benign satiric genius."
-San Francisco Chronicle
"The most perfect piece of prose writing to come along in
quite a while." -Philadelphia Weekly
"The literary equivalent of lemon souffle, light, tart and
delicious." -Detroit Free Press
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