"I remain eternally optimistic about everything in the long run. "I have such admiration for Whoopi Goldberg as an actress and a general smart person," Isaacs says. Only two of her books have made it to the screen, including "Shining Through," in which the character temperamentally closest to her turned into Melanie Griffith. Beg your pardon? Yes, Whoopi Goldberg, says Isaacs, which really gives the title a tweak. The film rights have been purchased by Whoopi Goldberg. In her rendition, it's white-knuckle stuff." "Susan Isaacs' real subject here isn't murder or legal thrills, of course, but the drama and suspense of middle-class women's lives. " 'Lily White' is a big, fat, happy feast of a book her most confident and appealing," mystery writer Jon Katz, another chronicler of murderous suburbs, wrote in the New York Times Book Review on June 30. As of this week, "Lily White" has cracked several national and regional best-seller lists. Isaacs, accustomed to generally good reviews, has garnered some of the best notices of her career.
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