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- Author : Elinor Lipman
- Binding : Paperback
- EAN : 9780375707315
- Edition : 1st Edition
- ISBN : 037570731X
- Label : Vintage Books
- Languages : Original Language: English, Published: English
- Manufacturer : Vintage Books
- Number Of Items : 1
- Number Of Pages : 272
- Package Dimensions : 0.50 inches (Height) x 8.20 inches (Length) x 0.50 pounds (Weight) x 6.40 inches (Width)
- Product Group : Book
- Publication Date : 2000-04
- Publisher : Vintage Books
- SKU : 20110125147043
- Studio : Vintage Books
When Nash Harvey, incurable womaniser and failing jingle composer, arrives at the Boston home of the Dobbin sisters, he is struck with a casserole dish. Not surprising, considering that Nash, onetime fiancé of Adele Dobbin, disappeared on the night of their engagement party, 30 years ago. Fresh from a failed romance with a Californian reflexologist, Nash brings chaos to the Dobbins, all of whom have settled into a weary spinsterhood. Unintentionally, he leads everyone he meets to a truer knowledge of themselves, and the possibilities of a brighter future. Five distinct, but masterfully interwoven tales of the heart spin around the central, hilariously desperate mission of Nash, a man seeking to escape the inescapable. Lipman writes with the wry authority of a latter-day Jane Austen or Henry James. Her work ripples with startling segues into the perversities of male-female relationships. Yet for all this insight, her characters are drawn with companionable warmth. This is not a book about the bold and the beautiful. Her cast inhabits a twilight of TV dinners, greying hair and disastrous dates, yet they never lose their hope, or their capacity for love. A gourmet casserole of a book--drama, humour and understanding in equally generous portions. -- Matthew Baylis
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