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Elinor Lipman
The Pursuit of Alice Thrift
A NOVEL
Dedication
For Mameve Medwed,
dear and exemplary friend
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
1: Tell the Truth
2: Later Classified as Our First Date
3: Leo Frawley, RN
4: We Entertain
5: A.k.a. the Transportation
6: Alice Makes Up Her Own Mind
7: Reveille
8: Leo’s House
9: Née Mary Ciccarelli
10: I (Nearly) Kill Someone
11: Now What Do I Do?
12: Clarification
13: Ms. Bravado
14: I’m a Normal Person
15: Advanced Social Outreach
16: Slow-Normal
17: Venues Not Available to Me
18: The Life of the Party
19: The Annals of Surgery
20: Saturday Night
21: Social Work
22: I Move On
23: Here Comes the Bride
24: Hiatus
25: Do It for Dr. Thrift
26: Plan A
27: The Opposing Argument
28: The Wife-Bride
29: We’re Engaged
30: A Free Woman
31: Alice Thrift, A.D.
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Life at a Glance
Top Eleven Favourite Books
About the Book
A Critical Eye
Who’s Sorry Now?
Q & A
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Acknowledgments
About the Author
Praise
By the Same Author
Copyright
About the Publisher
1 Tell the Truth
YOU MAY HAVE seen us in “Vows” in The New York Times: me, alone, smoking a cigarette and contemplating my crossed ankles, and a larger blurry shot of us, postceremony, ducking and squinting through a hail of birdseed. We didn’t have pretty faces or interesting demographics, but we had met and married in a manner that was right for SundayStyles: Ray Russo came to my department for a consultation. I said what I always said to a man seeking rhinoplasty: Your nose is noble, even majestic. It has character. It gives you character. Have you thought this through?
