Big City Eyes - Softcover

Delia Ephron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857025148 ISBN 13: 9781857025149

Publisher: Fourth Estate, 2000

Synopsis

"Compassionate, funny, and tremendously satisfying," was The New York Times Book Review's description of Delia Ephron's first novel, Hanging Up. In her new book, she brings her heart and humor to the story of a woman's attempt to deal with passion, guilt, murder, and motherhood.

In a state of near panic because of the nighttime activities of her teenage son, Lily Davis decides to uproot herself and Sam from Manhattan to Sakonnet Bay, a small Long Island town, where presumably the opportunities for trouble and grief are less available. She becomes a reporter for the weekly paper, Sam enrolls in high school, and for at least a few weeks life proceeds as expected. Then, through unexpected and unnerving circumstances, she spies a naked woman asleep in a summer house. And everything changes. There is a murder. Or is there? And there is a man. But he is married, and Lily is filled with guilt-about her own divorce. Friendship and love relationships unravel, or threaten to. Are people and events as they seem, or is Lily just perceiving her small town through big-city eyes?

"Gentle humor and deadpan observation," said The Boston Globe of Hanging Up. "Ephron handles her characters with a deft, delicate touch." Delia Ephron has become known for her subtle ability to mix wit and sensitivity. In this book, she outdoes herself, with quirky Lily Davis, a big-city woman attempting to make sense of small-town life.

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From the Inside Flap:

To keep her fifteen-year-old son safe from the everyday temptations of New York City?namely sex, drugs, and all-night clubs?single mom Lily Davis decides it?s time she and Sam move to Sakonnet Bay, a picturesque town on the Long Island coast with a much slower pace. Or so she thinks.

For Sam makes a friend who speaks only in Klingon?and before you can say wejpuh, they?re having sex on the kitchen table. Lily lands a great job as a columnist for the local paper, but the folks in town are gossiping about her run-in with a nipping dog and police sergeant Tom McKee. Most disturbing, there?s the undeniable attraction between Lily and the very married McKee. And when she and Tom stumble upon what appears to be a dead woman in a house they?re . . . well . . . trespassing in, Lily?s picture-postcard world begins to peel at the edges. How much passion, guilt, and murder can one woman take?

From the Back Cover:

“A wry, wacky page-turner . . . The Eyes have it.”
–People

“THE TRADEMARK EPHRON MIXTURE OF TENDERNESS AND HUMOR MAKES BIG CITY EYES A DELIGHTFUL ESCAPE.”
–USA Today

“AN OFFBEAT AND WRY LOVE STORY . . . FUNNY DIALOGUE . . . For all its wit, the book is often poignant. . . . All book lovers should direct their eyes to Big City Eyes.”
–New York Post

“EPHRON IS BLESSED WITH THE DRIEST OF WITS [AND] THE TENDEREST OF HEARTS.”
–ARMISTEAD MAUPIN

About this edition

• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1857025148
• ISBN 13: 9781857025149
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240