The Family Man
This Jane Austen fan has always enjoyed the quick wit and smart dialogue in the movies of Nora Ephron and Woody Allen. So I couldn't help mentally assigning roles to my favorite actors for the characters in this book - a 21st century screwball comedy par excellence.
There's the successful, but lonely, gay lawyer who suddenly realizes his long-lost adopted daughter is the coat check girl at his Manhattan hair salon; his wacky ex-wife who now recruits him as a friend when her latest husband dies and leaves everything to the nasty stepsons; his new love interest - a bridal consultant who lives with his octogenarian mother.
Every chapter has a new crazy twist to the plot, with an ending that is over the top, yet strangely satisfying. I'm definitely going back to read more by Elinor Lipman!
 | The Family Man Lipman, Elinor 2009/05 - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) 9780618644667 Check the Library's Catalog A hysterical phone call from his ex-wife and a familiar face in a photograph upend Henry Archer's well-ordered life to bring him back into contact with the child he adored, a stepdaughter from a misbegotten marriage long ago 320 pp. ...More |
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