She serves up social satire, too, that’s all the more trenchant for being deftly drawn.” 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 has been called “the diva of dialogue” ( People) and “the last urbane romantic” ( Chicago Tribune). As Natalie tries to enter the world that has excluded her-and succeeds through the sheerest of accidents- The Inn at Lake Devine becomes a delightful and provocative romantic comedy full of sparkling social mischief.Įlinor Lipman is the author of numerous novels, including On Turpentine Lane, The View from Penthouse B, The Inn at Lake Devine, The Pursuit of Alice Thrift, and Then She Found Me (a 2008 major motion picture written, directed and starring Helen Hunt) a collection of stories, Into Love and Out Again an essay collection, I Can’t Complain: (All Too) Personal Essays and Tweet Land of Liberty: Irreverent Rhymes from the Political Circus. In this beguiling novel, Elinor Lipman charts her heroine's fixation with a small bastion of genteel anti-Semitism, a fixation that will have wildly unexpected consequences on her romantic life. For twelve-year-old Natalie, who has a stubborn sense of justice, the words are not a rebuff but an infuriating, irresistible challenge.

Our guests who feel most comfortable here, and return year after year, are Gentiles.

But when Natalie Marx's mother inquires about summer accommodations in Vermont, she gets the following reply: The Inn at Lake Devine is a family-owned resort, which has been in continuous operation since 1922. It's 1962 and all across America barriers are collapsing. Think Jane Austen in the Catskills' ( Chicago Tribune). This 'tale of delicious revenge' ( USA Today) is also 'a punchy little comedy of manners.

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