Coming Back Up - Hardcover

Lipsett, Suzanne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0689116020 ISBN 13: 9780689116025

Publisher: Scribner, 1985

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After a sexual assault Lonnie struggles to rebuild her life and regain the ability to receive love

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At age 38, Lonnie, a successful artist, is content and in control of her life, having escaped unscathed an early unfortunate marriage. She is justly proud of her charming Berkeley apartment in a large Victorian house. Her sister Dana, a refugee from a disastrous divorce and lost custody battle, lives downstairs. This complacent existence is suddenly shattered when Lonnie is beaten and raped by three men in search of drugs. Numb, shocked, and brutalized, she is for too long unaware of the child growing inside her. Lipsett's first novel recounts the pressures Lonnie faces in dealing with her own recovery and the fate of her childpressures from her parents who push abortion; from the rabbi for adoption; from Dana who sees this pregnancy as the chance to rebuild a family; and from within as Lonnie realizes that motherhood for her is now or never. Though Lonnie's ordeal sometimes reads like a case history, Lipsett's premise is intriguing and her writing competent. Marion Hanscom, SUNY at Binghamton Lib.
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From Publishers Weekly:

"By age thirty-eight, I had reached my stride and was lucky enough to know it," proclaims the narrator in this novel's opening sentence. She is Lonnie Mathias, an artist in Berkeley who is satisfied with her life as a single woman, her career and her decision not to have children. But Lonnie's luck runs out one evening when she is raped by three men who enter her apartment, apparently looking for drugs. Lonnie is slowing recovering from her physical and psychological bruises when she realizes she is pregnant. She chooses to have the baby, and then struggles with another decision: whether to raise the child herself or put the baby up for adoption. In her modest yet polished first novel, Lipsett has created a strong heroine, as well as a credible cast of family members and friends who help Lonnie realize that she is not, as she feared, forever "ruined for love." November 21
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