The view from penthouse B / Elinor Lipman.
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TextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.Description: 252 p. ; 24 cmISBN: - 0547576218 (hbk.)
- 9780547576213 (hbk.)
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Fiction | Lipman Elinor | Available | 33111007186600 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Two sisters recover from widowhood, divorce, and Bernie Madoff as unexpected roommates in a Manhattan apartment
Unexpectedly widowed Gwen-Laura Schmidt is still mourning her husband, Edwin, when her older sister Margot invites her to join forces as roommates in Margot's luxurious Village apartment. For Margot, divorced amid scandal (hint: her husband was a fertility doctor) and 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, cupcake-baking Anthony.
As the three swap money-making schemes and timid Gwen ventures back out into the dating world, the arrival of Margot's paroled ex in the efficiency 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.
"Her worldview? Her enthusiasm, her effortless wit? Just a few of the reasons we love Elinor Lipman."- Boston Globe
Two newly-single sisters, one a divorceé, the other a widow, become roommates with a handsome, gay cupcake-baker as they try to return to the dating world of lower Manhattan.