Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc., 2011
Pages: 8 Discs
Rating: DO NOT RECOMMEND
Synopsis: When Harriet Mahoney first sees it, Isabel Krug's bed is covered with sheared sheep and littered with celebrity biographies. Unpublished, fortyish, and recently jilted, Harriet has fled Manhattan for Isabel's loudly elegant Cape Cod retreat, where she will ghostwrite The Isabel Krug Story,based on the sexy blond'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 nonstop soap opera extravaganza, an experience to be swallowed whole -- and the attitude is catching....
Review: I stuck with this book for the writing. There are some funny moments and interesting metaphors. The plot itself wasn't all that compelling; although I can appreciate the smattering of satire.
The narrator drove me nuts. I couldn't stand her voice, or perhaps it was Lipman's writing style in the spoken voice that was so grating. I may have liked the print book better, but this was recommended to me by someone who thought the narrator did a fantastic job.
In the end, I was glad when I finished this.
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