At fifty, Pippa Lee seems just fine. The devoted wife of a brilliant publisher thirty years her senior, the proud mother of successful twins, and a lovely and adored friend and neighbor, she seems to glow with feminine serenity. But when her husband spontaneously decides they should cast off Gramercy Park for Marigold Village retirement home as a "preemptive strike against his decrepitude," Pippa finds her beatific persona unraveling in alarming ways: the truth is that the gracious woman of the present day has seen more than her fair share of the wild side. By seventeen, Pippa had lived with a Dexedrine-addicted mother, felt the first stirrings of sexuality with a school girlfriend, had an affair with a teacher, and run away from home, set adrift on a course littered with broken hearts--until she seemingly found love and security in a family of her own. And now that established world, too, is in danger. In Pippa Lee we have an unforgettable heroine, and a quirky and acutely intelligent portrait of the many lives behind a single name. Even after we've read it, "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee "is a story that is still unfurling.

瑞贝卡•米勒（Rebecca Miller）

美国著名导演、编剧、作家，文坛首屈一指的剧作家阿瑟•米勒之女，丈夫丹尼尔•刘易斯为两届奥斯卡影帝。著有短篇小说集《迷途人生》，由此改编而成的电影荣获美国圣丹斯电影节最高奖——评审团大奖。

本书为长篇小说处女作，出版后受到读者和媒体的极大好评，并迅速以31种语言在英、法、德、意、俄、日等国家和地区隆重推出，引起巨大反响。其细腻如水的文字、不动声色却刻薄犀利的叙述，尤其是年华易去生逢变故的感怀与凄惶，令万千读者无不心动、惆怅……