The View from Penthouse B - Rilegato

Lipman, Elinor

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ISBN 10: 0547576218 ISBN 13: 9780547576213

Casa editrice: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013

Riassunto

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

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Recensione:

"More delicious than my cup of steaming cocoa...tender, funny...The View from Penthouse B sparkles with wit." —The New York Times Book Review

"It's all wonderful fun. Lipman sketches her characters' foibles with amused affection and moves the plot forward with practiced ease...Lipman's fiction always honors an implicit contract to provide reader satisfaction." —Washington Post

"Sophisticated...Lipman dramatizes Gwen-Laura's dating with her usual tact and dry humor." —Wall Street Journal

"[A] shabby-chic fantasia...Lipman's milieu is gentle comedy, and her novels gravitate toward optimism: They're mischievous, sometimes wry, but hopeful of romance and redemption even in an emotionally messy world." —The Boston Globe

"A sly comedy of modern manners." —The Miami Herald

"Winning and often wildly funny...This novel, in fact, disappears faster than a red-velvet cupcake, even when you try to read more slowly because the diminishing number of pages means you're unfortunately getting closer to the acknowledgments." —The Seattle Times

"The View from Penthouse B mixes sisters, online dating, and Bernie Madoff's victims into a witty confection." —Parade

Dalla quarta di copertina:

Since Edwin died, I have lived with my sister Margo in the Batavia, an Art Deco apartment building on beautiful West Tenth Street in Greenwich Village. This arrangement has made a great deal of sense for us both: I lost my husband without warning, and Margot lost her entire life’s savings to the Ponzi schemer whose name we dare not speak. Though we call ourselves roommates, we are definitely more than that, something on the order of wartime trenchmates. She refers to me fondly as her boarder – ironic, of course because no one confuses a boarding house with an apartment reached via an elevator button marked PH. . . .

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• Editore: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0547576218
• ISBN 13: 9780547576213
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 252