Good Riddance - Softcover

Elinor Lipman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1785631683 ISBN 13: 9781785631689

Publisher: Lightning Books, 2020

Synopsis

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‘A vastly entertaining screwball comedy’ – Washington Post

Decluttering her tiny New York apartment, Daphne Maritch decides to throw out any belongings that do not spark joy.

These include a high-school yearbook inherited from her school teacher mother, June, to whom the class of ’68 dedicated the volume. June in turn attended every class reunion, scribbling notes and observations – not always charitably – after each one.

When neighbour Geneva Wisenkorn finds the discarded book and wants to use it for her own ends, Daphne realises she wants to keep it after all. Fighting to reclaim it, she uncovers some alarming Maritch family secrets and sets in motion a series of events that prove to be both poignant and absurd.

Good Riddance is a vastly entertaining screwball comedy from the Jane Austen of modern New York.

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About this title

About the Author

Elinor Lipman was born in Massachusetts and is the author of a dozen novels and counting. Her first one, Then She Found Me, was published in 1990 and was adapted into a film starring Helen Hunt, Bette Midler and Colin Firth. She won the New England Book Award in 2001, and her novel My Latest Grievance won the Paterson Fiction Prize. She lives in Manhattan, as well as in upstate New York. She is married with one son.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lightning Books
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1785631683
• ISBN 13: 9781785631689
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304