The View from Penthouse B, Elinor Lipman
The View from Penthouse B, Elinor Lipman
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The View from Penthouse B

Author: Elinor Lipman

Narrator: Mia Barron

Unabridged: 8 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/16/2013

Categories: Fiction, Women

Synopsis

Unexpectedly widowed Gwen-Laura Schmidt is still mourning her husband when her sister Margot invites her to join forces as roommates in Margot's luxurious Village apartment. For Margot, divorced amid scandal, 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 Anthony. As the three swap money-making schemes and Gwen ventures back out into the dating world, the arrival of Margot's paroled ex in the 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, this is a cracklingly witty, deeply sweet novel from one of our finest comic writers.

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 Anne

Rounding up from 3.5 stars. Two adult sisters have grown apart, but when they each suffer their own personal and economic tragedies, necessity brings them together again, and they're soon cobbling together a new found family in a Greenwich Village penthouse. Fast and fun.......more

Goodreads review by Jill

The one thing about picking up an Elinor Lipman novel is, you can be pretty sure what to expect from the get-go. You know the writing will be confident, breezy, and compulsively readable. You know her characters will be good-hearted, a little on the socially awkward style, and ready for some self-gro......more

Goodreads review by Hilary

To my mind, there are three general categories of books. First, there are The Books You Feel Like You Should Be Reading, which often overlap substantially with The Books You Never Read In High School Or College And Now It’s Sort Of Embarrassing That You Rented The Movie Version Of “Doctor Zhivago” I......more

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