The Private Lives of Pippa Lee - Paperback

by Rebecca Miller (Author)

Rebecca Miller's The Private Lives of Pippa Lee is the study of a brave, curious, multilayered woman--an acutely intelligent portrait of the many lives behind a single name. Now a major motion picture.

What part of our selves do we hide away in order to create a stable, successful adult life?

Pippa Lee has just such a life in place at age fifty, when her older husband, a retired publisher, decides they should move to a retirement community outside New York City. Pippa is suddenly deprived of the stimulation and distraction that had held everything in place. She begins losing track of her own mind; her foundations start to shudder, and gradually we learn the truth of the young life that led her finally to settle down in marriage--years of neglect and rebellion, wild transgressions and powerful defiance.

Author Biography

Rebecca Miller is the author of the short-story collections Personal Velocity, her feature-film adaptation of which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, and Total (FSG, 2022), as well as the novel Jacob's Folly (FSG, 2013). Her other films include Angela, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, Maggie's Plan, and an adaptation of The Private Lives of Pippa Lee. She lives in New York with her family.