Private Lives Of Pippa Lee The

Pippa Lee is the devoted wife of the brilliant New York publisher Herb Lee. Now in his 80s Herb is finally retired and ready to make a pre-emptive strike against his decrepitude by moving with his wife from Gramercy Park to the Marigold Village retirement community. . Pippa 30 years younger than Herb attempts to settle gracefully into life at Marigold Village but she soon finds herself unravelling: walking even driving in her sleep. Chain-smoking. Drawn to the troubled son of a neighbour. Pippa wonders if she is having a nervous breakdown or if cracks are beginning to show in the veneer she has so carefully constructed. . For Pippa hasnt always been a sophisticated and beatific wife and parent. She has been daughter to a Dexedrine-addicted mother Lolita to a teacher model for S&M lesbian erotica runaway drug addict free spirit and secret mistress -- all before seemingly finding love and security in a family of her own. Now that identity too is coming apart.. In this absorbing fearless novel writer and director Rebecca Miller reveals how many lives can exist within one person -- and how leaving them behind is nearly impossible. In spite of all my devotion in the early days of my marriage there were moments when like a wolf domesticated by humans I caught a scent of my old ways and felt hemmed in. A beautiful young man walking by on the street the sight of teenagers high in the park sometimes threw me off balance; I could feel myself teeter on the edge of my new existence and imagined the thrill of kissing a man I barely knew or the sharp kick of amphetamine between my eyes.From The Private Lives of Pippa Lee