![]() ![]() "I didn't have then what I've developed over many decades of marriage: the ability to overrule him and find a cure for, at least in this context, that wifely condition, the disease to please." (p. She writes that in "her less confident youth," she wore clothes that her fashion-conscious husband approved. Her essay "Ego Boundaries" made me sit up. These are short and wise, from a biting piece about author behavior at lit fests, to her defense of mixed marriages after her novel The Inn at Lake Devine was criticized. I loved The Family Man and The Ladies' Man.Ģ013 is a good year for Lipman, who has two new books out, including a book of essays, I Can't Complain.ĭon’t be put off by essays, by the way. Their situations can make you grin because you've been there. She's written 10 novels about loving relationships of one kind or another, mostly set in New York City, where she lives part time. ![]() Elinor Lipman is the writer Julia Glass described as “one of the last urbane romantics." ![]()
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