Five Fortunes: A Novel - Hardcover

Gutcheon, Beth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060176792 ISBN 13: 9780060176792

Publisher: Cliff Street Books, 1998

Synopsis

A famous health spa, the Cloisters, affectionately referred to as Fat Chance by devotees, becomes the meeting place for a group of remarkable women who become unlikely friends over the course of a year. By the author of Still Missing. Tour.

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Review:

"She has absolutely perfect pitch when it comes to capturing the lives of these remarkable women. This seems to be the quintessential American woman's tale. I loved it." -- Anne Rivers Siddons"This is the novel as we used to know it, with laughter, tears, true-to-life details and a must-know what happens next story line." -- Penelope Fitzgerald"Beth Gutcheon's novel is like your dream of a best friend: funny and sunny and wise, full of intimate news, never preachy or self-centered. This writer knows women, and how much we all want a book to comfort us. If ever there was proof that a delicious novel--cheer and sad and perfectly resonant--can be intelligent and serious, too--here it is, in hearts." -- Sandra Scofield"An unpretentious tale of freindship among the well-heeled that is both a page-turner and day-brightener." -- "Kirkus Reviews""Stylish new comedy...we are caught up in this fast-paced story as these women are in each other's lives." -- "Publishers Weekly"

About the Author:

Beth Gutcheon is the critically acclaimed author of the novels, The New Girls, Still Missing, Domestic Pleasures, Saying Grace, Five Fortunes, More Than You Know, Leeway Cottage, and Good-bye and Amen. She is the writer of several film scripts, including the Academy-Award nominee The Children of Theatre Street. She lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cliff Street Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0060176792
• ISBN 13: 9780060176792
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 398