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Synopsis
The eponymous heroine of the praised Alice in Bed has left the hospital for the parks of New York in her new career as photographer and art director of an obscure bird-watching magazine. Having married Peter, an appealing, laid-back analyst of baseball statistics, Alice remains bemused and exasperated by her divorced, spacy, "hideously cheerful" mother, psychologist Brenda Brody, who is still romantically involved with sleazeball Louie Scifo. Brenda attempts to break off with him, when Louie begins a bizarre campaign of harassment which infuriates the Brody clan as thoroughly as it tickles the reader.
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"Schine has a delicious sense of humor....She has given us delightfully quirky characters who deserve a permanent place in the pantheon of comic creations." --"The New York Times
""Cathleen Schine is a modern-day Jewish Jane Austen. She has written an elegantly comic novel." --"People"
"Who else but Cathleen Schine can graft a delicate comedy of manners onto a slapstick farce with such unerring poise and wit? A novel that manages to be this funny is an achievement; one that also possesses grace and depth is a rare bird indeed." --"Chicago"" Tribune
""A very modern comedy that skewers family life with heart and wit." --"New York"""magazine
"Funny...joyful...wonderful." --"The New York Times Book Review"
Schine has a delicious sense of humor .She has given us delightfully quirky characters who deserve a permanent place in the pantheon of comic creations. "The New York Times"
Cathleen Schine is a modern-day Jewish Jane Austen. She has written an elegantly comic novel. "People"
Who else but Cathleen Schine can graft a delicate comedy of manners onto a slapstick farce with such unerring poise and wit? A novel that manages to be this funny is an achievement; one that also possesses grace and depth is a rare bird indeed. "Chicago Tribune"
A very modern comedy that skewers family life with heart and wit. "New York magazine"
Funny joyful wonderful. "The New York Times Book Review""
Schine has a delicious sense of humor .She has given us delightfully quirky characters who deserve a permanent place in the pantheon of comic creations. The New York Times
Cathleen Schine is a modern-day Jewish Jane Austen. She has written an elegantly comic novel. People
Who else but Cathleen Schine can graft a delicate comedy of manners onto a slapstick farce with such unerring poise and wit? A novel that manages to be this funny is an achievement; one that also possesses grace and depth is a rare bird indeed. Chicago Tribune
A very modern comedy that skewers family life with heart and wit. New York magazine
Funny joyful wonderful. The New York Times Book Review
""Schine has a delicious sense of humor....She has given us delightfully quirky characters who deserve a permanent place in the pantheon of comic creations." --The New York Times
"Cathleen Schine is a modern-day Jewish Jane Austen. She has written an elegantly comic novel." --People
"Who else but Cathleen Schine can graft a delicate comedy of manners onto a slapstick farce with such unerring poise and wit? A novel that manages to be this funny is an achievement; one that also possesses grace and depth is a rare bird indeed." --Chicago Tribune
"A very modern comedy that skewers family life with heart and wit." --New York magazine
"Funny...joyful...wonderful." --The New York Times Book Review
About the Author
Cathleen Schine is the author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport, The New Yorkers and The Love Letter, among other novels. She has contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, and The New York Times Book Review.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0452276624
- ISBN 13 9780452276628
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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