From one of the most consistently astute and engaging social
commentators of our day comes another look at the tough and tender
women of New York City--this time, through the lens of where they
live. One Fifth Avenue, the Art Deco beauty towering over 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. For the women in Candace Bushnell's
new novel, One Fifth Avenue, this edifice is essential to the lives
they've carefully established--or hope to establish. From the hedge
fund king's wife to the aging gossip columnist 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. Acutely observed and mercilessly witty, One Fifth Avenue
is a modern-day story of old and new money, that same combustible
mix that Edith Wharton mastered in her novels about New York's
Gilded Age and F. 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 public eye. But Bushnell is an
original, and One Fifth Avenue is so fresh that it reads as if
sexual politics, real estate theft, and fortunes lost in a day have
never happened before. From Sex and the City through four
successive novels, Bushnell has revealed a gift for tapping into
the zeitgeist of any New York minute and, as one critic put it,
staying uncannily "just the slightest bit ahead of the curve." And
with each book, she has deepened her range, but with a light touch
that makes her complex literary accomplishments look easy. Her
stories progress so nimbly and ring so true that it can seem as if
anyone might write them--when, in fact, no one writes novels quite
like Candace Bushnell. Fortunately for us, with One Fifth Avenue,
she has done it again.
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