Big City Eyes

by Delia Ephron

Book Overview

A winsome novel written with humor and heart about one woman's attempt to deal with passion, guilt, single motherhood, and murder--from the author of Hanging Up and the writer/producer of Sleepless in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345443454
• ISBN13: 9780345443458
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

I'm a guy, OK?!

Ok, I'm a guy that picks up a western or a Hamish McBeth book to take up my time when it comes to reading..what little there is. I happen across this title, for some reason, bought it. I really liked it. I had to say I drew some looks from family and friends when they heard me chucking and laughing. A joy to read from beginning to end. I could see this as a moviefor some reason with Meg Ryan and Damian Lewis as Lily Davis and Tom McKee.

Touching...as a parent, I was moved by it.

We all come to a novel with our particular bias; mine is as a parent. I loved Ephron's non-stop rating of her son (normal range, not normal range, etc.)and found it both touching and funny. The book has a winsome quality and rather than see it as Lily Davis growth as a woman, I chose to view the novel as her growth as a parent. At the beginning, I would rate her in the normal range but just barely but as the story plows ahead, she makes it to the very normal range. I also enjoyed the fact that Lily Davis does not give in to her own desires but rather to her son's, at least at the end of the book. Aside from everything else, the columns by Lily Davis were quite well written...if only writing like that appeared in every small town weekly. That's another thing...the book is about a Manhattan woman's radical move to a small town and small town life, aside from "Gilmore Girls," was never more charming. Loved it, recommend it.

Out of the ordinary

I would not consider "Big City Eyes" a literary master piece but most of the enjoyable light weight stuff we get everyday, like TV shows we watch religiously each week, are none the less essential to our good times. I do believe that the reviews of this book are accurate and provide the potential reader that this is one for a long plane ride. Lily is a character not far from everyone of us that mentally experiences life. We plug in background music to situations, think about the good old times, and wish life were bigger than it really is. I enjoyed this book because of its difference. At first I was annoyed that it was a simple read but I found myself laughing and having a good time reading it. My next book is "White Teeth" a Zadie Smith novel of a more grandious literary style. I look forward to every new style of writing I encounter. Hope you enjoy "Big City Eyes".

Am I the only one who loved it?

I loved big city eyes. I thought it was funny, easy to follow and believable. her characters are very realalistic, (Not like some books were your suposded to like the book only because the author tells you. Or were the characters are only pure evil or pure good.) Her narrations are wonderful. It's about a reporter who is worried her son is beeing currupted by the city so she moves to the country. It deals with alot of real things in life and is still interesting.

A fun beach book!

Okay. So this book is not high art, but I loved it. Spending a little time in Sakonnet Bay was just the break I needed. The main character --Lily-- seemed so familiar, like an old friend, and then it struck me: I think Harriet the Spy grew up to be Lily Davis. The story is a lightweight mystery--very funny, sweet and bittersweet and Eprhron,as ususual, has given us a bunch of wacky ancillary characters that are written with a great deal of affection. I hope that she'll use Lily and Sam,Deidre and Jane in another book, because I hated to lose them at the close of this one.