Rachel to the Rescue
Published on 16. October 2020
304 pages
978-1-78563-256-3 (ISBN)
Description
Rachel Klein is sacked from her job at the White House after she sends an email criticising Donald Trump. As she is escorted off the premises she is hit by a speeding car, driven by what the press will discreetly call 'a personal friend of the President'.Does that explain the flowers, the get-well wishes at a press briefing, the hush money offered by a lawyer at her hospital bedside?Rachel's recovery is soothed by comically doting parents, matchmaking room-mates, a new job as aide to a journalist whose books aim to defame the President, and unexpected love at the local wine store.But secrets leak, and Rachel's new-found happiness has to make room for more than a little chaos. Will she bring down the President? Or will he manage to do that all by himself?Rachel to the Rescue is a mischievous political satire, with a delightful cast of characters, from one of America's funniest novelists.
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Elinor Lipman was born in Massachusetts and is the author of a dozen novels and counting. Her first one, Then She Found Me, was published in 1990 and was adapted into a film starring Helen Hunt, Bette Midler and Colin Firth. She won the New England Book Award in 2001, and her novel My Latest Grievance won the Paterson Fiction Prize.
She lives in Manhattan, as well as in upstate New York.
Content
- Intro
- 1 THE BAD NEWS FIRST
- 2 VISITING HOURS
- 3 AM I VIRAL?
- 4 SOMETHING'S GOING ON
- 5 THE BUZZ
- 6 WHY ME?
- 7 WHOSE MOVE NOW?
- 8 I MEET DOUGIE
- 9 I RETURN
- 10 PASSING MUSTER
- 11 WHEN CAN YOU START?
- 12 I CAN DO THAT
- 13 HOW, WHEN, WHERE AND WITH WHOM?
- 14 I'M NEW AT THIS
- 15 OFFICE VISIT
- 16 I'M A JOURNALIST NOW
- 17 THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
- 18 SOME THINGS YOU'D RATHER NOT KNOW
- 19 THE AWKWARD REALM OF THE PERSONAL
- 20 NIGHTS AND WEEKENDS
- 21 THREE'S A CROWD
- 22 PERSONAL MATTERS
- 23 THE WRONG RACHEL KLEIN
- 24 BETWEEN THE LINES
- 25 TOWARDS A BETTER "BLIGHT"
- 26 SATURDAY NIGHT
- 27 MY FUTURE SANITY
- 28 INCREASINGLY UGLY
- 29 AN EXCELLENT IDEA
- 30 TABLE FOR SEVEN
- 31 STATE OF THE UNION
- 32 CALM DOWN, KLEIN
- 33 NEXT SHINY OBJECT
- 34 COME FOR DINNER
- 35 SHABBAT SHALOM
- 36 NONE OF MY BUSINESS, BUT
- 37 SHABBAT REDUX
- 38 LOVED ONES
- 39 WHO KNOWS WHEN?
- 40 LIKE AN EPILOGUE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
