The last laugh : a novel /

The last laugh : a novel /

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Author / Creator:	Freed, Lynn, author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	New York : Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017. ©2017
Description:	x, 188 pages ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Female friendship -- Fiction. Older women -- Fiction. FICTION -- Literary. FICTION -- Contemporary Women. FICTION -- Family Life. Female friendship. Older women. FICTION -- Literary. FICTION -- Contemporary Women. FICTION -- Family Life. Fiction.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11290201

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ISBN:	9780374286651 0374286655 9780374713676
Notes:	Subtitle from cover.
Summary:	"A witty new novel about three self-proclaimed "old bags" who run off to a Greek island ... Since their children left home, Ruth, Dania, and Bess have grown used to living wonderfully free lives. Only now they're beset by children again--this time, their grandchildren. In order to escape, they decide to run away to Greece together for a year. At first, settled on a glorious island, barefoot and contented, they think they've rediscovered the wheel. But then things begin to go awry. Dionysus, a local poet, takes up with Bess, at least until his wife gets wind of things. Dania, a therapist, is being stalked by one of her patients. And Ruth's ex-lover turns up out of the blue, closely followed by the man who lost Bess her fortune. It doesn't help when the children and grandchildren also start turning up whenever they feel like it. As Bess writes in one of Ruth's weekly "Granny à Go Go" columns, this is not an Enchanted April sort of year. Lynn Freed's previous novels have received rave reviews everywhere from The New York Times Book Review ("Makes us laugh while packing, finally, a punch"), to the Los Angeles Times Book Review ("Deeply absorbing and ambitious. Astonishingly vivid"). In The Last Laugh she returns with a beautifully written and funny novel about money, sex, friendship, and the pleasures and perils of children."-- "Three women in their sixties vgo off to live in Greece for a year, only to have their children, grandchildren, and past lovers invade what was supposed to be a relaxing getaway"--

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