Title: Life's a beach
Product review: Alison Lurie has never met a foible she can't expose or a pretension she won't skewer, but her real talent lies in making us sympathize with her characters at the same time we're laughing at them.In this book the cast has shed their "real" lives, along with most of their clothing, to visit Key West, a place where it would be very possible to take a long walk off a short pier, as several of these people seem in danger of doing. Without the trappings that usually define them, they're compelled to get down to basics and discover important things about themselves.While some of Lurie's earlier books are richer, the broad strokes seem appropriate here. A world pared down to sea and sand, where everyone's at the end of the line, is drawn with an economy worthy of that other Key West writer. If only Papa had been this funny.
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