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Book Review of Isabel's Bed

Isabel's Bed
Isabel's Bed
Author: Elinor Lipman
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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This is from the back cover:

"When Harriet Mahoney first sees it, Isabel Krug's bed is covered in sheared sheep and littered with celebrity biographies. The unpublished, fortyish, and recently hilted Harriet has fled Manhattan for a room atop a Cape Cod dune. There, in Isabel's loudly elegant retreat, she'll ghostwrite "The Isabel Krug Story", based on the sexy blonde's scandalous tabloid past. Unusually talented in the man department ("I give lessons"), Isabel revamps and inspires Harriet as they gear up to tell all, including the tangled history Isabel shares with her odd lodger, Costas. Life according to Isabel is a soap-opera extravaganza, an experience to be swallowed whole, and her attitude is catching."