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The last laugh : a novel / Lynn Freed.

by Freed, Lynn.

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Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.

Americans -- Greece -- Fiction.

Older women -- Fiction.

Families -- Fiction.

Female friendship -- Fiction.

Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey) -- Fiction.

9780374286651 (hc.)

0374286655 (hc.)

x, 188 p. ; 22 cm.

"To escape their griping grown children, husbands and lovers, and an abundance of grandchildren underfoot, three self-proclaimed 'old bags,' Dania, Ruth, and Bess, head for a quiet island on the Aegean Sea. They’ll spend a year by the water--watching the sunset, eating grilled fish and fresh olives, sipping ouzo. They deserve it, they say. After all those years, the three women will finally have some peace. Except that they can’t. For one, Bess, a pampered, once-beautiful inheritress, falls swiftly into an affair with a poetry-writing taxi driver--who has, of course, a territorial wife. And Dania, a therapist, begins to receive an increasing number of cryptically menacing phone calls from a psychotic patient. An ex-lover of Ruth’s shows up unexpectedly, right before one of Bess’s does--and then the women’s children arrive, with their own demanding children in tow. As the island quickly becomes crowded, the women’s serene year in Greece devolves perilously, and uproariously, into something much more complicated. With the wit of Maria Semple’s Today Will Be Different and all the adventure of Deborah Moggach’s The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Lynn Freed’s The Last Laugh is at once wildly funny and deeply perceptive, an exuberant story of friendship and pleasure, family and love."--From publisher.

Humorous fiction.

Women's fiction.

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