01862nam a22001817a 4500008004100000020001800041082001600059100002000075245004100095260007400136300001400210520115100224650009801375942002001473999001701493041000801510952016201518220112b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d a9780008258252 a823.92bHON a Honeyman, Gail a Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine aLondonbNew York, New York : Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, [2017]c2017 a386p.ePB a "Smart, warm, uplifting, the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes the only way to survive is to open her heart. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. That, combined with her unusual appearance (scarred cheek, tendency to wear the same clothes year in, year out), means that Eleanor has become a creature of habit (to say the least) and a bit of a loner. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kind of friends who rescue each other from the lives of isolation they have each been living. And it is Raymond's big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one"-- Read less aSingle women -- Fiction. Social isolation -- Fiction. Intergenerational relations -- Fiction. 2ddccLIT--F/ NF c10709d10713 hEng 00102ddc406823_920000000000000_HON70924723aCLbCLcGRFd2022-01-12g0.00l8m1o823.92 HONpG00861q2026-06-20r2026-04-19 00:00:00s2026-04-19yGIFTED