A review by tculp
The Ladies' Man by Elinor Lipman

2.0

I don’t normally even finish a 2-star book, but this one was clever enough I wanted to know what happened. But I just felt empty at the end. Like it had no soul. Ive heard Lipman called a modern Jane Austen - comedy of manners type thing - and this was a modern comedy of manners, but it had none of Austen’s character development or universal-human-spirit appeal. Maybe this isn’t her best work, but I don’t plan on picking her up again.