The Resource The pursuit of Alice Thrift : a novel, Elinor Lipman
The pursuit of Alice Thrift : a novel, Elinor Lipman
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- Summary
- Alice Thrift, a socially inept surgical intern at a Boston hospital, is pursued romantically by shady social climber Ray Russo, until her roommate and her neighbor decide to guide Alice through the social complexities of life
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed.
- Extent
- 289 pages
- Isbn
- 9780375724596
- Label
- The pursuit of Alice Thrift : a novel
- Title
- The pursuit of Alice Thrift
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Elinor Lipman
- Subject
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- trueNurses
- Interns (Medicine) -- Fiction
- trueSelf-fulfillment
- Interpersonal relations
- trueMen/women relations
- Courtship
- trueInterpersonal relations
- Bildungsromans
- trueWomen interns (Medicine)
- trueCourtship
- Bildungsromans
- Women physicians -- Fiction
- Massachusetts -- Boston
- trueMainstream fiction
- Interns (Medicine)
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Boston (Mass.) -- Fiction
- trueBoston, Massachusetts
- Fiction
- trueSwindlers and swindling
- trueSelf-discovery
- Women physicians
- Courtship -- Fiction
- trueWomen physicians
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Alice Thrift, a socially inept surgical intern at a Boston hospital, is pursued romantically by shady social climber Ray Russo, until her roommate and her neighbor decide to guide Alice through the social complexities of life
- Summary
- Workaholic wallflower Alice Thrift, a socially inept surgical intern at a Boston hospital, is pursued romantically by Ray Russo, a social-climbing, somewhat shady purveyor of carnival fudge, until her roommate, nurse Leo Frawley, and neighbor, Dr. Sylvie Schwartz, decide to take on the task of guiding Alice through the social complexities of life.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 072332
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Lipman, Elinor
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Women physicians
- Interns (Medicine)
- Interpersonal relations
- Boston (Mass.)
- Courtship
- Courtship
- Interns (Medicine)
- Interpersonal relations
- Women physicians
- Massachusetts
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The pursuit of Alice Thrift : a novel, Elinor Lipman
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocm55025401
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed.
- Extent
- 289 pages
- Isbn
- 9780375724596
- Lccn
- 2002031864
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)55025401
- Label
- The pursuit of Alice Thrift : a novel, Elinor Lipman
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocm55025401
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed.
- Extent
- 289 pages
- Isbn
- 9780375724596
- Lccn
- 2002031864
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)55025401
Subject
- Bildungsromans
- Bildungsromans
- Boston (Mass.) -- Fiction
- trueBoston, Massachusetts
- Courtship
- trueCourtship
- Courtship -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Interns (Medicine)
- Interns (Medicine) -- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations
- trueInterpersonal relations
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- trueMainstream fiction
- Massachusetts -- Boston
- trueMen/women relations
- trueNurses
- trueSelf-discovery
- trueSelf-fulfillment
- trueSwindlers and swindling
- trueWomen interns (Medicine)
- Women physicians
- trueWomen physicians
- Women physicians -- Fiction
Genre
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Writing style Writing style terms tell us how a book is written, from the complexity of the language to the level of the detail in the background.
Character Only applied to fiction books, character appeal is especially for those readers who love books *because* of the characters.
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