The Dearly Departed - Rilegato

Praise for The Ladies Man

"I loved every page of this very funny, insightful, sophisticated yet good-natured book."
—The New York Times Book Review

"In a deft balancing act, Lipman gets at heartache and familial truths with both honesty and humor."
—Entertainment Weekly

"Delightful. . . . Once you start reading this book, you wonít want to do anything else."
—Newsday

"Hilarious. . . . [Lipman's] fiction renders serious subjects through a lens of humor and hope."
—The Boston Globe

"Nobody is better at distilling motives and first impressions in narrative shorthand. . . . You won't find better reporting from the front lines of the battle between the sexes."
—The Seattle Times

"Smart, darkly comic . . . Lipman's sharp satiric sense recalls that of Alison Lurie."
—Chicago Tribune
Praise for The Inn at Lake Devine

"A tale of delicious revenge."
—USA Today

"An author who was born with an auto-immune system already primed against clichés and an ear for dialogue sharper than an electronic listening system."
—The Times (London)

Elinor Lipman is the author of seven books: the novels The Pursuit of Alice Thrift, The Dearly Departed, The Ladies' Man, The Inn at Lake Devine, Isabel's Bed, The Way Men Act, Then She Found Me, and a collection of stories, Into Love and Out Again. She has been called "the diva of dialogue" (People) and  "the last urbane romantic" (Chicago Tribune). Book Magazine said of The Pursuit of Alice Thrift,  "Like Jane Austen,  the past master of the genre, Lipman isn't only out for laughs. She serves up social satire, too, that's all the more  trenchant for being deftly drawn."
 
Her essays have appeared