Isabels Bed, Elinor Lipman
Isabels Bed, Elinor Lipman
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Isabel's Bed

Author: Elinor Lipman

Narrator: Grace Conlin

Unabridged: 9 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2007

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

When Harriet Mahoney first saw it, Isabel Krugs 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 The unpublished, fortyish, and recently jilted Harriet had fled wintry Manhattan in response to a mysterious ad in The New York Review of Books: Book in progress?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 peacefulyour 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 blondes tabloid pastspecifically, 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 soapopera extravaganza, an experience to be swallowed wholeand the attitude is catching.

About Elinor Lipman

Elinor Lipman is the award-winning author of sixteen books of fiction and nonfiction, including The Inn at Lake Devine, Isabel’s Bed, I Can’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 2011–12 Elizabeth Drew Professor of Creative Writing at Smith College and divides her time between Manhattan and the Hudson Valley.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Gale on September 06, 2014

I picked up this book second-hand at The Book Mill in Massachusetts and thoroughly enjoyed it. Fresh premise, wonderful execution. Ms. Lipman is a really a stunning writer--first-rate. As a writer, I'm learning a great deal from her. The story was unpredictably funny and quirky. Nothing ends the way......more

Goodreads review by Antof9 on January 07, 2009

A quote from Julia Glass (Chicago Tribune) from the back of the book: "If Jane Austen had been born about two centuries later, gone to Smith, then palled around with Fran Lebowitz, chances are she'd have written like Elinor Lipman. She is one of the last urbane romantics. As always, Lipman makes us......more

Goodreads review by Robin Wright on January 23, 2009

I love Elinor Lipman's novels. Her writing is light but always makes me laugh, makes me stay up way too late when I should have turned off the light, makes me "see" the characters by revealing one or two key traits or habits, and reveals their vulnerabilities. If you are looking for War and Peace th......more

Goodreads review by Julie on March 12, 2025

March 2025: This time I read the physical book, and it was just as enjoyable. Elinor Lipman is one of my favorite authors, so I know I must have read this ages ago, but I had almost no memory of the plot. This was a typical Lipman novel, lots of snappy dialog, enjoyable plot and intriguing and relata......more

Goodreads review by Georgina on May 14, 2007

I wasn't sure how I felt about the protagonist initially but she grew on me, and overall I really enjoyed the book. Lippman created very authentic characters and was particularly successful at delving into the heart and mind of a recently scorned lover.......more

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