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In this comic romance it’s the early 1960s and Natalie Marx is stunned when her mother receives this response to enquires about vacation accomodation in Vermont: ‘Our guests who feel most comfortable here, and return year after year, are Gentiles.’ So begins Natalie’s fixation with the Inn and the family who owns it.
’It was not complicated , and, as my mother pointed out, not even personal: they had a hotel; they didn’t want Jews; we were Jews...’ Natalie Marx is stunned to discover the Inn at Lake Devine in Vermont , a hotel operating an anti-semitic policy. She becomes obsessed with the Inn and the family that owns it, and finagles an invitation to join a friend on vacation there. In this way she sets herself on a path that will inextricably link her adult life to this peculiar family and their once-restricted hotel.
This novel delights with its elegant and deft story-telling and sparkling characters: even when anti-Semitism rears its head in Vermont and the tables are turned in the Catskills. Elinor Lipman is the undisputed master of the art of screwball comedy, and The Inn at Lake Devine is a wonderfully satisfying, witty, romantic comedy.
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'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
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'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
'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
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- PublisherFourth Estate
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 1841151262
- ISBN 13 9781841151267
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages272
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