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Overview"Lily, Molly, and Inez are women of a certain age, of a certain bearing, of a certain class. Late one dire night, Molly telephones from Connecticut to catch Lily up with the news: Inez's corpse -- near-naked but wearing boots -- has been discovered propped up ""like a broom"" in a corner of her Soho loft. It is an occasion ripe for an all-night heart-to-heart conversation, bouncing deliriously from one evasion to the next -- until the pair of talk-crazy, talk-weary women have successfully diverted themselves with all the wonderfully vagrant stuff of life . . . with everything, in fact, except grief." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lily TuckPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc Imprint: Collins Dimensions: Width: 13.40cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 20.50cm Weight: 0.122kg ISBN: 9780060832841ISBN 10: 0060832843 Pages: 160 Publication Date: 11 April 2006 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsTuck has a knack for capturing the meadering quality of real conversation. --New York Times Book Review Sophisticated and funny... Tuck gives us... with the skill and technique of an unblinking juggler, a heart-stopping struggle. --Washington Post Book World What great fun this novel is! . . . A lovely and engaging tour de force. Hooray for Lily Tuck! --George Plimpton Hilarious, appalling, profound... What an illuminating satire Tuck has written, her hearing so acute, her night-vision so preternatural! --Richard Howard What an ear Lily Tuck has!... Tuck has written a very funny and completely original book. I loved it! --Frances FitzGerald Surprising . . . Technically audacious. --Newsday Shows a real gift for comic dialogue. --Library Journal Most impressive . . . Sharp, funny and strangely affecting . . Highly original . . . Wonderful satire. --Michiko Kakutani, New York Times Tuck has a knack for capturing the meadering quality of real conversation. --New York Times Book Review Shows a real gift for comic dialogue. -- Library Journal Author InformationBorn in Paris, LILY TUCK is the author of four previous novels: Interviewing Matisse, or the Woman Who Died Standing Up; The Woman Who Walked on Water; Siam, or the Woman Who Shot a Man, which was nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction; and The News from Paraguay, winner of theNational Book Award. She is also the author of the biography Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker and are collected in Limbo and Other Places I Have Lived. Lily Tuck divides her time between Maine and New York City. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |