![]() ![]() ![]() As Natalie tries to enter the world that has excluded her-and succeeds through the sheerest of accidents- The Inn at Lake Devine becomes a delightful and provocative romantic comedy full of sparkling social mischief. In this beguiling novel, Elinor Lipman charts her heroine's fixation with a small bastion of genteel anti-Semitism, a fixation that will have wildly unexpected consequences on her romantic life. For twelve-year-old Natalie, who has a stubborn sense of justice, the words are not a rebuff but an infuriating, irresistible challenge. Our guests who feel most comfortable here, and return year after year, are Gentiles. But when Natalie Marx's mother inquires about summer accommodations in Vermont, she gets the following reply: The Inn at Lake Devine is a family-owned resort, which has been in continuous operation since 1922. It's 1962 and all across America barriers are collapsing. The questions, discussion topics, and suggested reading list that follow are designed to enhance your reading of Elinor Lipmans The Inn at Lake Devine. Think Jane Austen in the Catskills" ( Chicago Tribune). ISBN: 9781841151274 SKU: 1319545 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual. This "tale of delicious revenge" ( USA Today) is also "a punchy little comedy of manners. This 2001 Fourth Estate Paperback is in Good condition. ![]()
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