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Rae English, a smart and witty young woman, is drawn to secretive men. It is the still straitlaced early sixties, the era of Mad Men where women are expected to be married and pretty. After a divorce from a disgraced politician, Rae relocates to Iowa City, hoping to find or conceal herself as a writer and to rediscover love.
“Lucy Rosenthal writes with the mirth and bite of the great Peter De Vries. I am amazed at how much fun she seems to be having while she fillets the pretentious and punctures the self-inflated. The smart reader will know enough to get out of her line of fire.”
-Billy Collins
The World of Rae English is a rare novel of wry eloquence. Its remarkable sentences delineate a fifties and sixties world full of disguises, and we watch its heroine blunder through the task of unmasking those around her, past and present. A wonderful book.”
-Joan Silber
Lucy Rosenthal’s The World of Rae English radiates the warmth, frankness and intelligence of its quirky heroine. In this uninhibited tale, Rosenthal perfectly captures the difficulties that smart women face in their search for love and self-definition. An absolutely addictive read.”
-Patricia Bosworth
Lucy Rosenthal has captured the heart and mind of a woman of our time, a player in the high stakes gamble on love and work. Savvy, moving and hilarious The World of Rae English brings an earthy American voice to our age of experience, updating the dilemmas Edith Wharton found in her own age of innocence.”
-Josephine Hendin
A witty and memorable portrait of a woman sensitive to deceit and drawn to the deceitful. The World of Rae English, barbed and strewn with secrets, is also the world of a daughter searching for love and learning to let go. A knowing, stunning book.”
-Dalia Sofer
© 2012 Jessica Weber 
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