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020 _a9780008258252
082 _a823.92
_bHON
100 _a Honeyman, Gail
245 _a Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine
260 _aLondon
_bNew York, New York : Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, [2017]
_c2017
300 _a386p.
_ePB
520 _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
650 _aSingle women -- Fiction. Social isolation -- Fiction. Intergenerational relations -- Fiction.
942 _2ddc
_cLIT--F/ NF
999 _c10709
_d10713
041 _hEng