β Scribed by Gutcheon, Beth
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"A gifted storyteller...her characters are intelligent, brave, and witty...human and real."
--Susan Isaacs, New York Times Book Review
The critically acclaimed author of Good-bye and Amen , Leeway Cottage , and More Than You Know , Beth Gutcheon returns with Gossip , a sharply perceptive and emotionally resonant novel about the power of knowing things about others, the consequences of rumor, and the unexpected price of friendship. A story set among the rich, famous, and well-dressed of Manhattan's Upper East Side, Gossip is a bravura display of this exceptional author's breathtaking talents, addressing important themes of motherhood, friendship, and fidelity. Every reader who admires the strong, character-driven women's fiction of Sue Miller, Alice Hoffman, Elizabeth Berg, and Kaye Gibbons should lend an ear to Beth Gutcheon's Gossip.
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Π²ΠΡA gifted storyteller...her characters are intelligent, brave, and witty...human and real.Π²ΠΡ Π²ΠβSusan Isaacs, *New York Times Book Review* The critically acclaimed author of *Good-bye and Amen*, *Leeway Cottage*, and *More Than You Know*, Beth Gutcheon returns with *Gossip*, a sharply perceptiv
Explores the nature, morality, and aesthetics of gossip; examines gossip in history and the psychology of gossip; and analyzes gossip--as subject and literary technique--in plays, letters, biographies, and novels.