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First Published:
May 2001, 384 pages
Paperback:
Apr 2002, 400 pages
Weiner's witty, original, fast-moving debut features a lovable heroine, a solid cast, snappy dialogue and a poignant take on life's priorities.
For twenty-eight years, things have been tripping along nicely for Cannie
Shapiro. Sure, her mother has come charging out of the closet, and her father
has long since dropped out of her world. But she loves her friends, her rat
terrier, Nifkin, and her job as pop culture reporter for The Philadelphia
Examiner. She's even made a tenuous peace with her plus-size body.
But the day she opens up a national women's magazine and sees the words
"Loving a Larger Woman" above her ex-boyfriend's byline, Cannie is
plunged into misery...and the most amazing year of her life. From Philadelphia
to Hollywood and back home again, she charts a new course for herself: mourning
her losses, facing her past, and figuring out who she is and who she can become.
Chapter One
"Have you seen it?" asked Samantha.
I leaned close to my computer so my editor wouldn't hear me on a personal
call.
"Seen what?"
"Oh, nothing. Never mind. We'll talk when you get home."
"Seen what?" I asked again.
"Nothing," Samantha repeated.
"Samantha, you have never once called me in the middle of the day about
nothing. Now come on. Spill."
Samantha sighed. "Okay, but remember: Don't shoot the messenger."
Now I was getting worried.
"Moxie. The new issue. Cannie, you have to go get one right
now."
"Why? What's up? Am I one of the Fashion Faux Pas?"
"Just go to the lobby and get it. I'll hold."
This was important. Samantha was, in addition to being my best friend, also
an associate at Lewis, Dommel, and Fenick. Samantha put people on hold, or had
her assistant tell them she was in a meeting. Samantha herself did not hold.
"It's a sign of weakness," she'd told me. I felt a small twinge of
anxiety work its way down my spine...
Susan Isaacs,
Good in Bed is a delight, a contemporary Cinderella tale told with
intelligence, wit, and style.
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