Isabel's Bed: A Novel - Softcover

Lipman, Elinor

3.56

2,292 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671881612 ISBN 13: 9780671881610

Publisher: Pocket Books, 1996

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Ghostwriting the memoirs of scandalous blonde Isabel Krug, recently jilted Harriet Mahoney learns about her subject's tangled history and finds that Isabel is helping her to re-create herself. Reprint.

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Review:

"Chicago Tribune"

If Jane Austen had been born about two centuries later...chances are she'd have written like Elinor Lipman.... One of the last of the urbane romantics.

"People"

A warm, affecting tale about one smart woman letting go of her dumb choices and fumbling toward love....

"San Francisco Chronicle"

Delightful....Engaging....The perfect companion....After a short while, these characters become more vivid than one's own friends.

"People"A warm, affecting tale about one smart woman letting go of her dumb choices and fumbling toward love....

"San Francisco Chronicle"Delightful....Engaging....The perfect companion....After a short while, these characters become more vivid than one's own friends.

Carolyn See"The Washington Post Book World"By about page ten of this novel, the reader gets a...grin on his face, and that grin doesn't really stop for about a week.

"Chicago Tribune"If Jane Austen had been born about two centuries later...chances are she'd have written like Elinor Lipman.... One of the last of the urbane romantics.

"Chicago Tribune" If Jane Austen had been born about two centuries later...chances are she'd have written like Elinor Lipman.... One of the last of the urbane romantics.

Carolyn See "The Washington Post Book World" By about page ten of this novel, the reader gets a...grin on his face, and that grin doesn't really stop for about a week.

"San Francisco Chronicle" Delightful....Engaging....The perfect companion....After a short while, these characters become more vivid than one's own friends.

Book Description:

'Imagine, if you can, a cross between Phillip Roth and Melissa Bank' Maggie O'Farrell, Independent on Sunday

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