The Private Lives of Pippa Lee by Rebecca Miller
At age fifty, Pippa Lee seems perfectly content. The devoted wife of a successful publisher and proud mother of grown twins, a consummate hostess to the literati and an admired and trusted neighbor, her life seems to lack for nothing. But when she and her eighty-year-old husband move to a quiet retirement village, the routines and distractions that have upheld Pippa's flawless feminine persona begin to crumble away. And under the surface, her surprisingly gritty and adventurous past is beginning to break through. When Pippa finds herself acting out strange yearnings in her sleep, she gradually allows the voice of her lost self to come through into her consciousness, recounting a wild and reckless youth full of experimentation and heartbreak, passion and guilt. We learn how she ran away from home to escape the manic-depression of her pill-popping mother, only to fall into drugs herself among the loose New York art crowd. Leaving a trail of broken hearts and messy affairs behind her, it is only when she meets the older Herb that she discovers her longing for security and resolves to steal him from his wife in order to settle down and create a family of her own. Written with quirky humor, intelligence and compassion, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee is a wise and acute portrait of the many lives behind a single name.Rebecca Miller is the author of the short-story collection Personal Velocity, for which she received the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance with her feature-film adaptation, and The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (FSG, 2008), which she also adapted for the screen. Her family splits their time between New York and Ireland.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780312428334 |
| ISBN 10 | 0312428332 |
| Title | The Private Lives of Pippa Lee |
| Author | Rebecca Miller |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | St Martin's Press |
| Year published | 2009-08-18 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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