In an Elevator with Brigitte Bardot (Paperback)

~ Michael Lee (Author), Cover art by Suzie Hutchins (Illustrator)

Editorial Reviews

Review

"I see Michael Lee once a week for therapy. Believe me, I earn every dime." --Gordon Barney, MA, LMHC

"Michael Lee's IN AN ELEVATOR WITH BRIGITTE BARDOT is by turns melancholy and hilarious, sweet and bittersweet, a gift of hard-won wisdorm and wry observation from a...writer of enormous gifts. If there is such a thing as painful joy, Michael Lee is its voice." --Thomas H. Cook, Edgar Award winning author of RED LEAVES, PERIL, INTO THE WEB

"Mike Lee writes with honesty, penetration, wit and the ability to surprise the reader with an unexpected turn from time to time that enriches the experience." --Norman Mailer

Product Description

An irresistible collection of personal essays in which Michael Lee's characteristic humor and compassionate insight revolves around the experience of daily life in Cape Cod. Framed by broad-interest essays that travel far-afield and far abroad, the appropriate center of these appreciations is a seasonal round informed by place. But Lee's sense of place is not provincial. He always finds the extraordinary in the ordinary. Lee's achievement here in the short essay form is as remarkable as his achievement in short fiction with his debut collection, PARADISE DANCE (2002).

See all Editorial Reviews

Product Details

• Paperback: 232 pages
• Publisher: Wordcraft of Oregon, LLC; 1st edition (May 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1877655503
• ISBN-13: 978-1877655500
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,127,399 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A treasury to savor a bit at a time, or all at once., August 6, 2007

By	Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

Marine Corps veteran and experienced journalist Michael Lee presents In an Elevator with Brigitte Bardot and Other Appreciations, a selection of essays interspersed with humor, memories, searing personal insights into daily life in Cape Cod. "Great poetry can be change-your-life stuff. Or sometimes it's just change your pants stuff. But then the next Bill Collins gets up there, living out loud and dragging poetry, kicking and screaming, onto the actuality of the blank page. Then you can't help but get excited about poetry." Each essay is only a few pages long, yet each strikes the heart of its topic with a deft flick of the wrist. A treasury to savor a bit at a time, or all at once.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Michael Lee Does it Again!, May 24, 2007

By	Maureen Hourihan - See all my reviews

With "In An Elevator With Bridgette Bardot," his hilarious new collection of essays, Mike Lee complements the sterling collection of short stories that delighted us in "Paradise Dance."

With Mr. Lee, we're treated to a close-up look at a guy who's not afraid of anything - outside of a few univited summer guests, revenge-seeking
ex-wives, or the occassional rigors of hiking the back woods of Wellfleet.

Michael tackles the etiquette of receiving a massage from a "large hairy man." But,instead of suffering in silence, he poses the question on every
red-blooded straight man's lips: "Do you mind if I leave my underpants on?" Lee reports the masseuse, "Looked at me as though he never intended to invade France."

"The Boys of Fall" celebrates the Sunday afternoon football game. Guys like Stinky and Psycho Al, circle a groaning coffee table, hemmed in by great bowls of buffalo wings, potato skins, and beer, to cheer for the Pats or whoever is beating the Jets. Here is male bonding at its finest - burping,farting and bumping chests while consuming vast quantities. What guy can't relate? What gal hasn't run for the hills at the sight of the first falling leaf?

For any poor soul who's embarked upon yet another excercise routine, Lee
offers, "With a Thong in My Heart" which grabs you by the love handles and
dips you over backward until you shriek for mercy.

I double-dare you to run out and buy several copies before they're all gone.(Rumor has it Miss Bardot ordered 3!) The only way you're going to have more fun is if you find yourself trapped in an elevator with Michael himself. And what are the odds of that happening?

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Belly Laughs, May 10, 2007

By	Pauline M. Grocki (Chatham, MA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Mike Lee's latest book is a collection of newpaper columns he has written and they are as funny as hell. They made me laugh out loud. Underlying Mr. Lee's humor is a keen preception of his own and others' foibles but told in a non-judgmental way. He laughs with people and not at them. Other columns show Mr. Lee's love of traditions, nature and particularly Cape Cod. Bring on more, Mr. Lee.