The Pursuit of Alice Thrift

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Elinor Lipman. The Pursuit of Alice Thrift

Elinor Lipman. The Pursuit of Alice Thrift

Dedication

Contents

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

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Q & A

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Acknowledgments

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Praise

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Copyright

About the Publisher

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A NOVEL

dear and exemplary friend

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I said, “If this is leading up to a compliment, I’d prefer you didn’t. I wouldn’t believe it anyway.”

He reached over and turned a page of the menu so “Pesce” was before me. “Doctors—they watch what they eat and they know about good cholesterol. What about a piece of salmon?”

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