{"product_id":"must-read-well-hardcover","title":"Must Read Well - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEllen Pall\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEllen Pall's \u003cem\u003eMust Read Well\u003c\/em\u003e immerses the reader in an escalating game of cat-and-mouse between two women: a millennial scholar driven to deceit to reach her goals and a frail octogenarian no less capable of deception. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNarrated by Liz Miller, a penniless Ph.D. candidate desperate to finish her dissertation, the novel begins when Liz's boyfriend abruptly ditches her, rendering Liz homeless and reduced to couch-surfing at best friend Petra's tiny Manhattan studio apartment. Trying to find an affordable living space, she stumbles across a Craigslist posting that will change her life: a room with a view in a pre-war Greenwich Village apartment. The rent is a pittance, but in exchange, the tenant must be willing to read aloud daily to the apartment's sight-impaired landlady. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLiz quickly figures out that the sight-impaired landlady is none other than Anne Taussig Weil, author of the 1965 international blockbuster \u003ci\u003eThe Vengeance of Catherine Clark\u003c\/i\u003e and the very woman whose refusal to cooperate for the past four years has held up Liz's dissertation on the feminist works of mid-century women novelists. Access to Weil is the key to completing her doctorate at Columbia and finally getting her academic career back on track. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLiz sets scruples aside and presents herself as a quiet young woman still finding her way in life. Once settled in, Liz learns from Weil that her need for a reader stems from a desire to revisit a key episode in her life. That episode, recorded in the scrawled journals Weil kept since she was a young girl, turns out to be the story of her passionate, disastrous, secret love affair with a celebrated pianist-the affair, in fact, which gave rise to the plot of Vengeance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe novel, which builds from there to a double-twist climax, is fast-paced women's fiction, perfect for book club members everywhere. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEllen Pall has published more than a dozen novels, including \u003cem\u003eAmong the Ginzburgs\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBack East\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eCorpse de Ballet\u003c\/em\u003e. For ten years, she freelanced for \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, writing many feature stories about people in the arts. She has served on the board of PEN America Center, taught writing at Fordham College at Lincoln Center, and was a Shane Stevens Fellow at Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Her personal essay, \"To Recover Mother,\" was recently featured in T\u003cem\u003ehe New York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e. Though she lived for years in Los Angeles, she currently resides in New York City with her husband.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 284\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.83 x 9.35 x 6.15 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 18, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766296019232,"sku":"9781610885423","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/1bfa0f129fb774ca92d80f265cc545d9.webp?v=1780289478","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/must-read-well-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}