I Can't Complain
(All Too) Personal Essays

Name: I Can't Complain
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Elinor Lipman
ISBN: 9781624064746

Author: Elinor Lipman

Narrator: Elinor Lipman

Unabridged: 3 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Published: 05/07/2013

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography

Synopsis

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.

About Elinor Lipman

Elinor Lipman is the award-winning author of sixteen books of fiction and nonfiction, including The Inn at Lake Devine, Isabelâ€™s Bed, I Canâ€™t Complain: (All Too) Personal Essays, On Turpentine Lane, Rachel to the Rescue, and Ms. Demeanor, a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor. Her first novel, Then She Found Me, was adapted into a film directed by and starring Helen Hunt, with Bette Midler, Colin Firth, and Matthew Broderick. Lipman was the 2011â€“12 Elizabeth Drew Professor of Creative Writing at Smith College and divides her time between Manhattan and the Hudson Valley.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Diana on April 21, 2013

I love Elinor Lipman's novels. But her "essays"....can I complain? I felt misled on two crucial points. First, these essays are a compilation of reprints written over decades, and it shows. So ask yourself if you really want to read decades-old Good Housekeeping "Blessings" columns. If you do--great......more

Goodreads review by Roz on July 07, 2013

Roz Reads I CAN’T COMPLAIN (AT TOO) PERSONAL ESSAYS Most readers have heard of Nora Roberts, but few have heard of Elinor Lipman, which comes in quite handy if you happen to work in a public library. When a patron asks me to recommend a good book, I’ll ask,“ Have you read “My Latest Grievance?” The......more

Goodreads review by Diane on March 05, 2013

I have read all of Lipman's novels and have loved them all. When I discovered she had a book of personal essays in the (publishing) works, I was thrilled. I'm in love with her writer's voice--insouciant, wise, discerning, beautifully humorous. And just as in her fiction, that voice is light, yet pow......more

Goodreads review by January on January 18, 2023

I Can't Complain (All Too) Personal Essays by Elinor Lipman 161-page Hardback Genre: Writing > Essays; Adult Nonfiction, Autobiography > Memoir; Humor, Short Stories, Language > Writing Featuring: Family Stories, Personal Thoughts, Death, Writing Blurbs, Books & Movies Rating as a movie: PG-13 My rati......more

Goodreads review by Ashley on February 21, 2017

This book was fairly entertaining. I loved the chapters where the author talked about her family and her life experiences. My favorite chapter is "I Sleep Around," where she jokes about how sensitive her husband is when he's trying to sleep. She can't even use a book light in bed because of his "tra......more