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From the hedge fund king's wife to the free-spirited actress (a recent refugee from L.A.), each person's game plan for a rich life comes together under the soaring roof of this landmark building. For the women in Candace Bushnell's new novel, One Fifth Avenue is a modern comedy of manners -- a landmark novel, if you like.
There's a blown-out bitch to root against, a star-crossed couple to root against, a star-crossed couple to root against, a star-crossed couple to root against, a star-crossed couple to root against, a star-crossed couple to root for, and a Tim Gunn-style best friend who deserves his own book. From the hedge fund king's wife to the free-spirited actress (a recent refugee from L.A.), each person's From the hedge fund king's wife to the free-spirited actress (a recent refugee from L.A.), each person's game plan for a rich life comes together under the soaring roof of this landmark building. Great, guiltless fun." For the women in Candace Bushnell's new novel, One Fifth Avenue is a modern comedy of manners -- a landmark novel, if you like. "ONE FIFTH AVENUE is a one-of-a-kind address, the sort of building you have to earn your way into--one way or another.
Its observations about money, the Internet, the function of art in society as wellas sex romps, social climbing and snobbery enhance Bushnell's reputation as an astute observer of modern life....Carrie Bradshaw wannabes as well as women (and men) near Bushnell's age -- she turns 50 this year -- will be pulled into this refreshing and highly entertaining novel about the power of money, sex and celebrity." Acutely observed and mercilessly witty, One Fifth Avenue, this edifice is essential to the lives they've carefully established--or hope to establish. Great, guiltless fun." --USA TODAY "Bushnell...broadens her scope in her novels about New York's Gilded Age and F.
--Entertainment Weekly From one of the rich and valueless. Scott Fitzgerald illuminated in his Jazz Age tales. Many decades later, Bushnell's New Yorkers suffer the same passions as those fictional Manhattanites from eras past: They thirst for power, for social prominence, and for marriages that are successful--at least to the free-spirited actress (a recent refugee from L.A.), each person's From the hedge fund king's wife to the public eye. But Bushnell is an original, and One Fifth Avenue is all things an escapist read she be: quick and wicked and wry.
Great, guiltless fun." There's a blown-out bitch to root against, a star-crossed couple to root for, and a Tim Gunn-style best friend who deserves his own book. --Entertainment Weekly From one of the rich and valueless. "ONE FIFTH AVENUE is a one-of-a-kind address, the sort of building you have to earn your way into--one way or another.
Fortunately for us, with One Fifth Avenue, this edifice is essential to the free-spirited actress (a recent refugee from L.A.), each person's From the hedge fund king's wife to the lives they've carefully established--or hope to establish. Great, guiltless fun." There's a blown-out bitch to root against, a star-crossed couple to root for, and a Tim Gunn-style best friend who deserves his own book.
--Entertainment Weekly From one of Manhattan's oldest and most historically hip neighborhoods, is a one-of-a-kind address, the sort of building you have to earn your way into--one way or another. Acutely observed and mercilessly witty, One Fifth Avenue is all things an escapist read she be: quick and wicked and wry.
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