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About the Book

With its delicious food, warm jazz, and stunning views of Manhattan, Edward's home was a much-needed refuge for reporter Isabel Vincent. Her recently widowed ninety-something neighbour would prepare weekly meals for Isabel, dinners she would never prepare for herself - fresh oysters, juicy steak, sugar-dusted apple galette. But over long, dark evenings where they both grieved for their very different lost marriages, Isabel realised she was being offered a gift greater than good wine and perfect lamb chops. As they progressed from meals à deux to full dinner parties with an eclectic New York crowd, she saw that Edward was showing her how to rediscover the joy of life and turn hers around: how even a shared bowl of chowder could transform loneliness and anxiety into friendship, freedom, and a pure, simple pleasure Isabel had not known she could find again. Both moving and uplifting, Dinner with Edward raises a glass to the power of simple pleasures and the surprising connections formed in times of hardship.

About the Author :
Isabel Vincent is a Canadian investigative journalist and award-winning author who writes for the New York Post. During the 1990s she was a foreign correspondent for the Globe and Mail and covered the conflicts that led to the Kosovo War. She has written several books for which she has received prestigious honours, including the Canadian Association of Journalists Award for Excellence in Investigative Journalism and the National Jewish Book Award in Canada for Bodies and Souls. Her writings have also appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, L'Officiel and Time. Vincent is fluent in French, Spanish and Portuguese. She lives in New York.

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Dinner With Edward made me smile, laugh out loud and, also, cry. In this cynical world it is life enhancing and will remain with the reader for a very long time It's a wonderful story... impossible to read it without immediately rushing to a delicatessen Who wouldn't swoon? The story of their attachment unfolds like a genial dinner party... The food goes deep and the host sets a buoyant tone Life affirming, with no soppy sentiment. We all should have an Edward A charming, at times bittersweet memoir - a love-letter to good food done properly and, above all, to an unexpected, life-changing friendship Glorious... the most life-enhancing book I have read in years ... tender and highly original... Edward has given me a perfect role model for enjoying old age There is much to find endearing in Vincent's memoir: Edward delivers life lessons with the same apparent ease as he cooks delicious French recipes A touching, uplifting work, brimming with food, fondness and perfect martinis It is easy to fall deeply for Edward's tender heart... Readers will finish the book satisfied, yet wanting more The magic of Dinner with Edward is in wrapping it arms around a moment in the author's life In shape, size, and spirit, the latest from New York Post reporter Vincent is like Tuesdays with Morrie with gourmet dinners Delightful. It might be Isabel's growly hard-news background that keeps this book from becoming sweet... She tells the good, the bad and the difficult, all with an unsentimental but deeply empathetic understanding of Edward An engaging true story... mouth-watering... a little gem This book is full of life lessons, a reminder that no matter how old we grow, we still have much to share, and much to learn [A] beautiful, passionate love story - wholly platonic - about two people whose lives have undergone change... served with as much wonder and gratitude as the deliciously conveyed indulgence of each satisfying, lingering meal Delightfully combining the warm-heartedness of Tuesdays with Morrie with the sensual Julie and Julia, this is a memoir to treasure Delightful book about friendship which accepts time passing, savouring without rushing


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781911590262
  • Publisher: Pushkin Press
  • Publisher Imprint: One
  • Height: 198 mm
  • No of Pages: 240
  • Width: 129 mm
  • ISBN-10: 191159026X
  • Publisher Date: 29 Aug 2019
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: A Story of an Unexpected Friendship


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