To My Dearest Friends (Vintage Contemporaries) - Softcover

Volk, Patricia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0307275744 ISBN 13: 9780307275745

Publisher: Vintage, 2008

Synopsis

Alice and Nanny have never met before, but they have one thing in common: their late friend Roberta. Alice is the prim proprietor of a chic Madison Avenue shop, while Nanny is a sharp-eyed Manhattan real-estate broker. This New York odd couple is thrown together when Roberta trusts them with her last request--that together they open her safe-deposit box. What they find inside compels these women to address a surprising truth about their beloved Roberta. A profound yet hilarious novel, To My Dearest Friends is the story of two women and a journey of friendship neither chose to take.

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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 the author of the memoir Stuffed; the novels To My Dearest Friends and White Light; and two collections of short stories, All it Takes and The Yellow Banana. She has published stories, book reviews, and essays in dozens of newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, New York, The New Yorker and Playboy. She was a weekly columnist for New York Newsday, and she lives in New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0307275744
• ISBN 13: 9780307275745
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208