The Inn At Lake Devine - Softcover

Lipman, Elinor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0755337670 ISBN 13: 9780755337675

Publisher: Headline Review, 2007

Synopsis

It's 1962 and Natalie Marx is shocked when her mother receives this reply to her enquiry about summer accommodation in Vermont: 'Our guests who feel most comfortable here, and return year after year, are Gentiles.'

It was not complicated, as her mother pointed out. 'They had a hotel; they didn't want Jews. We were Jews.'

For the intrepid twelve-year-old Natalie, the words are an infuriating, irresistible challenge. She manages to wangle an invitation to join a friend on holiday there - and, as her obsession begins with the family that has excluded her, she sets in train events which will change her life, and which will tie her forever to the eccentric family who run the Inn at Lake Devine

About this title

Review:

'If Jane Austen had been born two centuries earlier, gone to Smith, then palled around with Fran Lebowitz, chances are she'd have written like Elinor Lipman. Lipman is one of the last urbane romantics.' -- Chicago Tribune

From the Publisher:

REVIEWS
'A taut, witty fifth novel set in North America in the 60s and tackles love, death and intermarriage against a backdrop of small-town anti-Seimitism.' SHE

About this edition

• Publisher: Headline Review
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0755337670
• ISBN 13: 9780755337675
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320