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Lily White - by Susan Isaacs (Paperback)

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  • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A big, fat, happy feast of a book. . . . [Isaacs's] most confident and appealing. . . . [She] is both funny and piercing, a highly satisfying combination.
  • Author(s): Susan Isaacs
  • 592 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Legal

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About the Book



Susan Isaacs follows up her biggest bestseller, After All These Years, with a smart, witty, ambitious novel--a riveting mystery of manners about two sisters who marry the same man. Filled with hold-onto-your-seat twists and turns, Lily White tells a spellbinding story of social mobility, family, and betrayal which answers the question: Are there any limits to what people are willing to do for love?



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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"A big, fat, happy feast of a book. . . . [Isaacs's] most confident and appealing. . . . [She] is both funny and piercing, a highly satisfying combination." --New York Times Book Review

Critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Susan Isaacs's most dazzling novel of murder, sex, and humor, and of manners and morality

Meet Lily White, Long Island criminal defense lawyer. Smart, savvy, and down-to-earth, Lee can spot a phony the way her haughty mother can spot an Armani. Enter handsome career con-man Norman Torkelson, charged with strangling his latest mark after bilking her out of her life's savings. As the astounding twists and reverses of the Torkelson case are revealed, so too is the riveting story behind Lee's life.

Lily White is a brilliantly crafted story of con artists and true lovers, of treachery and devotion--and of one brave lawyer's triumphant fight for justice.



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In Susan Isaac's most ambitious and dazzling novel to date, we are introduced to Lee White, a criminal defense lawyer practicing on Long Island. Into her life drifts Norman Torkelson, a career con man charged with strangling to death his latest mark. At first, as Lee explains to us, the case seems routine, the evidence overwhelming. Norman - manly, magnetic, and morally reprehensible - is a man who crisscrosses America looking for patsies for his cruel marriage scam: Love 'em, liquidate their assets, leave 'em. Clearly, he murdered Bobette Frisch, the dumpy, sour fiftysomething bar owner who had fallen madly in love with him. But just as Lee is resigning herself to the inevitable "Guilty!" verdict, she begins to have doubts. What, after all, was Norman's motive? Why not do what he had done for the last twenty years: run, and leave behind a broke and brokenhearted victim? Lee starts to wonder if her client is not merely not guilty but covering for the real killer and, in doing so, performing the first selfless act of his life. As the Torkelson case unfolds, a second narrator chimes in to tell us the story behind the story: the tale of Lee's life. Born Lily White, Lee is a smart, pretty, and privileged child coming of age on Long Island. Her parents have little time for her or her younger sister, devoted as they are to the pursuit of shallowness. Her mother, Sylvia, who looks like Lauren Bacall's twin sister with a mild eating disorder, is busy with the exhausting work of keeping up her wardrobe. Her father, Leonard Weissberg - Weiss - and finally White, is consumed by his chi-chi Manhattan fur salon, his model-bookkeeper mistress, and his obsession with the family next door, theold-money, oh-so-social Taylors. When Lee marries Jazz Taylor, the scion of these blue-bloods, her life seems blessed. Suddenly she has her mother's approval, her father's love - and a sublime husband. No matter that she has to give up her dream job in the Manhattan D.A.'s Office to move back to Long Island with him; that's what marriage is, a series of compromises made in the name of love. Isn't it?
Dimensions (Overall): 7.72 Inches (H) x 5.46 Inches (W) x 1.5 Inches (D)
Weight: .96 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: Legal
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Number of Pages: 592
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback
Author: Susan Isaacs
Language: English
Street Date: June 24, 2008
TCIN: 90955057
UPC: 9780061256233
Item Number (DPCI): 247-08-0208
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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