| Isabel's Bed Contributor(s): Lipman, Elinor (Author) |
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ISBN: 0671015648 ISBN-13: 9780671015640 Publisher: Atria Books OUR PRICE: $23.74 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1998 Annotation: "A marvelous, quirky novel" ("The Boston Globe") by the author of "Then She Found Me". When Harriet Mahoney first sees it, Isabel Krug's bed is covered in sheared sheep and littered with celebrity biographies. Now Harriet is about to get a lesson in life from this eccentric woman, whose autobiography she is ghostwriting. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Women - Fiction | Friendship - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 94029865 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 4.7" W x 8.2" (0.86 lbs) 400 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: When Harriet Mahoney first sees it, Isabel Krug's bed is covered with sheared sheep and littered with celebrity biographies. Unpublished, fortyish, and recently jilted, Harriet has fled Manhattan for Isabel's loudly elegant Cape Cod retreat, where she will ghostwrite The Isabel Krug Story, based on the sexy blond's scandalous tabloid past. Unusually talented in the man department (I give lessons), Isabel revamps and inspires Harriet as they gear up to tell all, including the tangled history Isabel shares with her odd lodger, Costas. Life according to Isabel is a nonstop soap opera extravaganza, an experience to be swallowed whole -- and the attitude is catching... |
Contributor Bio(s): Lipman, Elinor: - Elinor Lipman started writing fiction by night while working at a teachers' magazine by day. Her first book, Into Love and Out Again, was published in 1987; its centerpiece was seven connected stories, novella-length, which gave her the courage to try a novel. Then She Found Me came out in 1990 (eighteen years later it was adapted into a feature film), followed by The Way Men Act, Isabel's Bed, The Inn at Lake Devine, The Ladies' Man, The Dearly Departed, The Pursuit of Alice Thrift, My Latest Grievance, and most recently, The Family Man. Her honors include the New England Book Award and the Poetry Center's Fiction Prize. She divides her time between leafy western Massachusetts and New York City. Visit ElinorLipman.com to find out more. |