To My Dearest Friends - Hardcover

Volk, Patricia

2.98

484 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0307263606 ISBN 13: 9780307263605

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2007

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What happens when you find out something you wish you didn't know? From the critically acclaimed author of Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family, here is a smart, generous novel about two New York City women, the bonds of friendship, and the power - and responsibility - of secrets.
Alice, the proprietor of a chic Madison Avenue resale shop, and Nanny, a Carnegie Hill real-estate broker, have never met before, but they have one thing in common: their best friend Roberta, who has just died of cancer. Roberta has trusted them with her last request - that together they open her safe-deposit box. What they discover inside compels two very different women to join forces on a journey neither really wants to take.
Wryly observed, and rich with the atmosphere of New York City, To My Dearest Friends is a serious book that happens to be funny: a novel of real feeling and real life, about how what we hide from those we love can take us places we never imagined we'd go.

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Review:

"Every page is studded with precise and succulent detail. . . . A cozy, kick-off-your-shoes-and-curl-up novel." --The New York Times Book Review"Deliciously mischievous. . . . This deceptively light book has a lot to say about the complexity of friendship, the use and abuse of secrets, and the restorative power of love." --O, The Oprah magazine"A book about the intensity and beauty of life after 50. . . . Funny from the get-go, and a dear, timeless tale by its end." --More magazine "Sparkling. . . . It's the kind of book you read aloud from until friends beg you to stop so they can get their own copy. . . . An irresistible confection." --Newsday"Clever, funny, light. . . . A novel about privacy and secrecy, the differences between them, and why we need both." --The New York Observer

About the Author:

Patricia Volk is also the author of the novel White Light and two collections of short stories, All It Takes and The Yellow Banana. Her stories, book reviews, and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, New York, The New Yorker, Playboy, Redbook, GQ, The Quarterly, and O, The Oprah Magazine, and she was a weekly columnist for New York Newsday. She lives in New York City.

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