The pursuit of Alice Thrift : a novel / Elinor Lipman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lipman, Elinor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women physicians--Fiction.

Women physicians.

Interns (Medicine).

Interns (Medicine)--Fiction.

Interpersonal relations--Fiction.

Interpersonal relations.

Courtship--Fiction.

Courtship.

Boston (Mass.)--Fiction.

Boston (Mass.).

Genre:

Fiction.

Bildungsromans.

Physical Description:

269 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Random House, [2003]

Summary:

Poor Alice Thrift is book-smart but people-hopeless. She's a surgical intern at a Boston hospital, on probation despite honors from Harvard Medical School. When Ray Russo, social-climbing purveyor of carnival fudge, decides to pursue her romantically, Alice reluctantly follows. "Was it not flattering?" she explains. "Was I not insulted by evaluations that described my performance as workmanlike and my people skills as hypothermic? Was I not ready for someone, anyone, to utter words of admiration?"

Will Alice be humanized, ironically, by a slightly repulsive and shady character? Can a salutatorian find happiness on the bottom rung of her residency? Luckily, Leo Frawley, R.N., and Sylvie Schwartz, M.D., take on the task of guiding Alice through the narrow straits of her own no-rapport zone. The Pursuit of Alice Thrift brings the socially tone-deaf Alice out from under the burden of her clueless and beautiful mind.

ISBN:

0679463135

OCLC:

50670459