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book_concierge's review against another edition
4.0
3.5***
This is a collection of short stories set in New York City. As the title implies, the focus is on love … falling in love, attraction, heartbreak, excitement, intimacy, falling out of love.
Lipman peoples her work with a variety of urbanites. They are newly married, newly divorced, eager to meet “the one,” swearing off romance after a breakup. Some are focused on careers but find love in friendship. Some actively seek a partner. Some don’t want a long-term relationship, but a quick hook-up. All of them are interesting and, mostly, people I’d want to know. One couple, Tim and Hannah, meet in line at the Department of Motor Vehicles, and their romance unfolds over several stories in the book.
This was Lipman’s debut work. I’ve become a fan of hers in the last few years and decided to go back and read some of her earlier works. She writes with wit and tenderness and eyes wide open to her characters’ flaws and gifts.
This is a collection of short stories set in New York City. As the title implies, the focus is on love … falling in love, attraction, heartbreak, excitement, intimacy, falling out of love.
Lipman peoples her work with a variety of urbanites. They are newly married, newly divorced, eager to meet “the one,” swearing off romance after a breakup. Some are focused on careers but find love in friendship. Some actively seek a partner. Some don’t want a long-term relationship, but a quick hook-up. All of them are interesting and, mostly, people I’d want to know. One couple, Tim and Hannah, meet in line at the Department of Motor Vehicles, and their romance unfolds over several stories in the book.
This was Lipman’s debut work. I’ve become a fan of hers in the last few years and decided to go back and read some of her earlier works. She writes with wit and tenderness and eyes wide open to her characters’ flaws and gifts.
exlibrislynne's review against another edition
5.0
Elinor Lipman delights with a book of short stories, each of which leaves the reader salivating for more. Had this collection been a thousand pages, rather than a mere 200, readers would still have devoured it with as much fervor! Maybe more, for plot resolutions would have been more forthcoming, instead of leaving the reader with little or no resolution.
Fans of Tom Hank's Uncommon Type should peruse Into Love and Out Again for stories that both squeeze the heart, and cause involuntarily laughter from their clever witticisms.
Fans of Tom Hank's Uncommon Type should peruse Into Love and Out Again for stories that both squeeze the heart, and cause involuntarily laughter from their clever witticisms.
theannegirl's review against another edition
5.0
This is a wonderful, surprising little book. Be on the lookout for 80s era tropes but don't mind them, they don't obscure the truth of things that happen to and between the characters you meet. It's wry and honest and bittersweet and funny.
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