02409cam a2200373 i 4500 296137314 TxAuBib 20170516120000.0 170323s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016057843 9780735220683 $19.00 0735220689 $19.00 9780735220690 0735220697 TxAuBib rda Honeyman, Gail. Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine [BOOK] / Gail Honeyman. New York, New York : Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, 2017. 327 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Smart, warm, uplifting, the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes the only way to survive is to open her heart. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. That, combined with her unusual appearance (scarred cheek, tendency to wear the same clothes year in, year out), means that Eleanor has become a creature of habit (to say the least) and abit of a loner. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kind of friends who rescue each other from the lives of isolation they have each been living. And itis Raymond's big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one"-- Provided by publisher. 20181219. Social isolation Fiction. Single women Fiction. Intergenerational relations Fiction. Computer technicians Fiction. Friendship Juvenile fiction. Glasgow (Scotland) Fiction. Psychological fiction. Romance fiction.