The Inn at Lake Devine
Author(s): Elinor Lipman
It's 1962 and all across America barriers are collapsing. 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. Our guests who feel most comfortable here, and return year after year, are Gentiles. For twelve-year-old Natalie, who has a stubborn sense of justice, the words are not a rebuff but an infuriating, irresistible challenge.
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. 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.
Product Information
General Fields
- :
- : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- : 0.232239
- : 31 December 1997
- : 21.00 cmmm X 13.20 cmmm X 1.40 cmmm
- : books
Special Fields
- : Elinor Lipman
- : Paperback
- : en
- : 813.5/4
- : 253