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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

Rebecca Miller

Rebecca Miller's The Private Lives of Pippa Lee is the study of a brave, curious, multilayered woman--an acutely intelligent portrait of the many lives behind a single name. Now a major motion picture.

What part of our selves do we hide away in order to create a stable, successful adult life?

Pippa Lee has just such a life in place at age fifty, when her older husband, a retired publisher, decides they should move to a retirement community outside New York City. Pippa is suddenly deprived of the stimulation and distraction that had held everything in place. She begins losing track of her own mind; her foundations start to shudder, and gradually we learn the truth of the young life that led her finally to settle down in marriage--years of neglect and rebellion, wild transgressions and powerful defiance.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Picador USA
  • Publish Date: Jul 11st, 2023
  • Pages: 256
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.27in - 5.35in - 0.79in - 0.61lb
  • EAN: 9781250291356
  • Categories: WomenLiteraryWorld Literature - American - 21st Century

About the Author

Miller, Rebecca: - Rebecca Miller is the author of one book of short stories, PERSONAL VELOCITY (a Washington Post Best Book of 2001) and the acclaimed director of 'Angela' and 'Personal Velocity' (winner of a Grand Jury prize in the Sundance Film Festival in 2002). She lives with her husband and her two sons in Ireland and New York.

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Praise for this book

"Dreamy, elegant . . . Miller's astute, beautifully nuanced novel explores the unpredictable consequences of choosing to live a safe but emotionally compromised life." --Daily Mail (UK)

"Magnificent . . . Miller's depiction of her title character's tangled universe is so nuanced, so lovingly detailed, that it's impossible not to get drawn in." --Nylon

"Miller beautifully renders an American woman's grab and grab again at happiness." --The Believer

"Strikingly unconventional." --Elle

"Miller brings a simmering intelligence and verbal flair to this deft exploration of the courage required to own your own life." --Booklist

"Poignant and intriguing." --Daily Express (UK)

"All these stories are as perfect as the form itself allows--surprising, grotesque, inspiring. . . . [Miller is] a wonderful writer." --The Washington Post Book World on Personal Velocity

"[Personal Velocity] is eye-opening . . . always humane, always honest, and always entertaining." --Los Angeles Times Book Review on Personal Velocity