Suzanne Davis Gets a Life by Paula Marantz Cohen

'Page turner of the week.' People Magazine 'Cohen's wit is sharp, smart, and satirical, and her characterizations are vividly on target.' San Francisco Chronicle

Cohen is Distinguished Professor of English at Drexel University, and is host of the weekly public television program The Drexel Interview. Paula Marantz Cohen's novels include Jane Austen in Scarsdale or Love, Death and the SATs Jane Austen in Boca and the recent What Alice Knew: A Most Curious Tale of Henry James and Jack the Ripper. She ends by getting a lifeeven as she may lose one. But serious illness opens her to new people and a new perspective. We can't help but wish Suzanne success in 'getting a life.' But can such a search possibly yield the meaning she craves? When her extremely annoying mother arrives on the scene, it appears that her plan has been hijacked. Light in its tone but incisive in its social satire, Suzanne Davis Gets a Life balances its wit with true concern for its protagonist. All are keenly observed by Suzanne, whose witty self-deprecation endears her to us even as it makes us want to shake some sense into her. Her quest plunges us into the world of her Upper West Side apartment building, a world of overly invested mothers, fanatical dog-owners, curmudgeonly longtime residents, and young (and not so young) professionals. Right and start the family she hopes will give meaning to her life. As her 35th birthday looms, Suzanne embarks on a wrong-headed, but very funny, questto find Mr. Suzanne Davis lounges around her tiny New York City apartment in her pajamas, writing press releases for the International Association of Air-Conditioning Engineers, listening to the ticking of her biological clock, and wondering where life is taking her.

Cohen is a perceptive, comic writer.' Wall Street Journal Paula Marantz Cohen has given me all of that.'Margo JeffersonĪ 'witty commentary on contemporary life, enriched by a funny, flawed, and likable heroine.' Kirkus 'Suzanne Davis Gets a Life isn't just seriously entertaining, it's entertainingly serious…I want my romantic comedy heroines to have wit, but I want them to have character too, and be as interested in the world as in themselves.

'Incredibly charming… Suzanne Davis Gets a Life has an emotional honesty and moments of real wisdom.' Philadelphia InquirerĬohen 'portrays timeless and universal challenges through a buoyant combination of humor, pathos, and gumption.' Booklist

Suzanne Davis Gets a Life by Paula Marantz Cohen