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Falling for a playboy expatriate in Italy, divorced and unemployed Sylvia Landsman entertains him by sharing stories about her dysfunctional friends and family and is tempted to correct a past betrayal by engaging in an act of love and bravery.
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"[A] moving, bittersweet novel." -- More Magazine
[A] moving, bittersweet novel. --More Magazine
"Introspective, mordant and entertaining, The Scenic Route is a road-trip drama that eloquently articulates its characters' conflicting desires."--Time Out New York
"[A] moving, bittersweet novel."--More Magazine
"Life, storytelling, and memory all take us down long and winding roads. Binnie Kirshenbaum deftly explores the intersections of the three in 'The Scenic Route, ' her bittersweet fifth novel about lost love and friendship."--Boston Globe
"Binnie Kirshenbaum's witty, insightful European road novel turns the midlife-crisis-romance genre on its head."--The Daily Beast
"I'm much impressed with Binnie Kirshenbaum's THE SCENIC ROUTE, an idiosyncratic and totally winning 'romance, ' in which sentiment and cynicism are poised in a most virtuoso performance."--Joyce Carol Oates
"Tremendously readable...miraculously, Kirshenbaum avoids sentimentality."--Los Angeles Times
"Absurdly underrated Kirshenbaum is at her darkly comic and boldly encompassing best here, diverting us with hairpin-turn humor while slipping us hard truths about memory and inheritance, betrayal and guilt, and the inevitable end of the road."--Booklist
"Binnie Kirshenbaum is a fearlessly unsentimental storyteller, a gifted comic writer and a thoughtful archeologist of family life. The Scenic Route is warm, wise, and very difficult to put down."--Gary Shteyngart
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[A] moving, bittersweet novel. --More Magazine
"Introspective, mordant and entertaining, The Scenic Route is a road-trip drama that eloquently articulates its characters' conflicting desires."--Time Out New York
"[A] moving, bittersweet novel."--More Magazine
"Life, storytelling, and memory all take us down long and winding roads. Binnie Kirshenbaum deftly explores the intersections of the three in 'The Scenic Route, ' her bittersweet fifth novel about lost love and friendship."--Boston Globe
"Binnie Kirshenbaum's witty, insightful European road novel turns the midlife-crisis-romance genre on its head."--The Daily Beast
"I'm much impressed with Binnie Kirshenbaum's THE SCENIC ROUTE, an idiosyncratic and totally winning 'romance, ' in which sentiment and cynicism are poised in a most virtuoso performance."--Joyce Carol Oates
"Tremendously readable...miraculously, Kirshenbaum avoids sentimentality."--Los Angeles Times
"Absurdly underrated Kirshenbaum is at her darkly comic and boldly encompassing best here, diverting us with hairpin-turn humor while slipping us hard truths about memory and inheritance, betrayal and guilt, and the inevitable end of the road."--Booklist
"Binnie Kirshenbaum is a fearlessly unsentimental storyteller, a gifted comic writer and a thoughtful archeologist of family life. The Scenic Route is warm, wise, and very difficult to put down."--Gary Shteyngart
Binnie Kirshenbaum is the author of An Almost Perfect Moment, On Mermaid Avenue, A Disturbance in One Place, Pure Poetry, Hester Among the Ruins, and History on a Personal Note. She is a professor at Columbia University's School of the Arts, where she is chair of the Graduate Writing Program.
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- PublisherEcco Pr
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0060784733
- ISBN 13 9780060784737
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages320
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