The Pursuit of Alice Thrift. Elinor Lipman

      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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       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?