Sara Lewis, Author . Pocket $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7434-3669-4
Readers of "women's fiction" will find escapist entertainment and some nuggets of insight in Lewis's latest novel. It follows the tribulations of a praised but chronically impecunious author, Charlotte Dearborn, who abandons the...
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Sara Lewis, Author . Atria $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7434-3671-7
A middle-aged musician attempts to catapult himself into a belated adulthood in Lewis's (Second Draft of My Life
) mildly amusing fifth novel. Tom Good, a 47-year-old San Diego-area bartender with a susceptibility to "music-induced...
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Sara Lewis, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $19.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-15-191312-1
In many of the stories in this auspicious debut collection, ``slice of life'' becomes the almost literal mode: it's as if a keen sensibility has been used like a knife to cut through surface, details and telling behavior to dislodge what is at once...
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Sara Lewis, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $21.95 (276p) ISBN 978-0-15-139805-8
Lewis's ( Trying to Smile ) first novel is a graceful, deft and at times wryly comic portrait of a young woman in transition. At 33, Alice Hammond is an editorial assistant at a New York publishing house. Insecure, eager to please, she almost...
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Sara Lewis, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $22 (272p) ISBN 978-0-15-100160-6
In her charming and deceptively breezy second novel, Lewis (Heart Conditions, 1994) stakes further claim to the fictional territory defined by Laurie Colwin. Set in San Diego, the plot presents the romantic misadventures of a pair of 40-ish sisters,
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Sara Lewis, Author Mariner Books $13 (192p) ISBN 978-0-15-600395-7
Short fiction from Lewis illuminating moments of change in her characters' lives. (Mar.)
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Sara Lewis, Author Mariner Books $12 (272p) ISBN 978-0-15-600504-3
Two novels of manners by the popular New Yorker writer, which PW described as ""charming and deceptively breezy"" and ""graceful, deft and at times wryly comic,"" respectively. (July)
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Sara Lewis, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $23 (288p) ISBN 978-0-15-100326-6
If Life's Little Instruction Book were a novel it would be this unapologetically optimistic story of a young woman trying to get her life on track. Displaced from her job as a Cambridge, Mass., bank loan officer, lonely in her new surroundings in...
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