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Zusatztext "What an ear Lily Tuck has!... Tuck has written a very funny and completely original book. I loved it!" Informationen zum Autor Born 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. ...
