{"product_id":"2940149283408","title":"Suzanne Davis Gets a Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Incredibly charming...\u003ci\u003eSuzanne Davis Gets a Life\u003c\/i\u003e has an emotional honesty and moments of real wisdom.\"--\u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCohen \"portrays timeless and universal challenges through a buoyant combination of humor, pathos, and gumption.\"--\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Suzanne Davis Gets a Life\u003c\/i\u003e isn't just seriously entertaining, it's entertainingly serious...I want my romantic comedy heroines to have wit, but I want them to have character too, and be as interested in the world as in themselves. Paula Marantz Cohen has given me all of that.\"--Margo Jefferson\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA \"witty commentary on contemporary life, enriched by a funny, flawed, and likable heroine.\"--\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Ms. Cohen is a perceptive, comic writer.\"--\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSuzanne Davis lounges around her tiny New York City apartment in her pajamas, writing press releases for the International Association of Air-Conditioning Engineers, listening to the ticking of her biological clock, and wondering where life is taking her. As her 35th birthday looms, Suzanne embarks on a wrong-headed, but very funny, quest--to find Mr. Right and start the family she hopes will give meaning to her life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHer quest plunges us into the world of her Upper West Side apartment building, a world of overly invested mothers, fanatical dog-owners, curmudgeonly longtime residents, and young (and not so young) professionals. All are keenly observed by Suzanne, whose witty self-deprecation endears her to us even as it makes us want to shake some sense into her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLight in its tone but incisive in its social satire, \u003ci\u003eSuzanne Davis Gets a Life\u003c\/i\u003e balances its wit with true concern for its protagonist. We can't help but wish Suzanne success in \"getting a life.\" But can such a search possibly yield the meaning she craves? When her extremely annoying mother arrives on the scene, it appears that her plan has been hijacked. But serious illness opens her to new people and a new perspective. She ends by getting a life--even as she may lose one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Paula Marantz Cohen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Cohen's wit is sharp, smart, and satirical, and her characterizations are vividly on target.\"--\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eJane Austen in Boca\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Utterly charming.\"--\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Page turner of the week.\"--\u003ci\u003ePeople Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eMuch Ado about Jesse Kaplan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A brightly comic book.\"--\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Kept me laughing from beginning to end...a comic tour-de-force.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Hudson Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eJane Austen in Scarsdale\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Paula Marantz Cohen has done it again! Jane Austen in Scarsdale is laugh-out-loud funny, literate, wise--and best of all, a satirical mirror of our times. She has become our own Jane Austen.\"--Diane Ravitch, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Language Police\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eWhat Alice Knew\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A marvelously rich and intelligent read.\"--John Banville\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dry, Paul Books, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47111854457072,"sku":"2940149283408","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149283408_p0.jpg?v=1763714526","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149283408","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}