The residents of a historic Manhattan building are thrown for a
loop when an elderly socialite dies, leaving her spectacular
apartment up for grabs.In the glittering world of Bushnell's latest
(Lipstick Jungle, 2006, etc.), where you live is easily as
important as how (and with whom) you live. So when Louise Houghton
passes away a few weeks shy of her 100th birthday, her Greenwich
Village neighbors are anxious to have a say in who ends up living
in her coveted 7,000 square-foot space. The players include
octogenarian gossip columnist Enid Merle, her successful
screenwriter nephew Philip Oakland, and the embittered middle-aged
head of the co-op board, Mindy Gooch. Long resentful of the fact
that her family inhabits One Fifth's "worst" apartment, Mindy
pushes through a quickie sale of Louise's place seemingly just to
thwart Enid. The new residents, Paul and Annalisa Rice, certainly
seem suitable. Annalisa is a down-to-earth beauty who gave up her
law practice to accompany her math-genius husband to New York,
where he is developing some super-secret financial software. Paul,
unlike his wife, is cold and entitled, and as his fortunes grow, a
sinister, paranoid side of him emerges that alienates everyone in
the building, including Annalisa. But is Paul just a creep, or
something worse? Philip's love life, meanwhile, takes a complicated
turn when movie star ex-girlfriend Schiffer Diamond moves back
after years of living in Los Angeles. The two share a deep
connection, but reconciliation seems iffy when Philip starts
sleeping with his 22-year-old "researcher" Lola Fabrikant. A
pampered schemer who sets her sights on marriage - and Philip's
apartment - Lola hedges her bets by dallying with snarky celebrity
blogger Thayer Core, who in turn uses her for information. Mindy's
hen-pecked novelist husband James also develops a crush on the
lissome Lola, who begins paying attention to him when his new book
becomes a surprise success. With a breezy pace that brings to mind
a Gilded Age comedy of manners, the novel might not have anything
new to say about New York society, but there are enough twists to
keep it fun. (Kirkus Reviews)
One Fifth Avenue, the Art Deco beauty towering over Manhattan's
hippest neighbourhood, 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 stellar new novel, One Fifth Avenue
is at the heart of the lives they've carefully established, or hope
to establish. There is Schiffer Diamond, a forty-something actress
busily proving that women of style are truly ageless. There is
spoiled, self-assured Lola, who is determined to launch herself
into society and the arms of the right man by clawing a way into
the building. Annalisa is the wife of a hedge fund manager and
reluctant socialite, while bitter Mindy is married to an
under-published writer and has been the family breadwinner for too
long. And then there is Enid, the glamorous grande dame and gossip
columnist, who has lived at One Fifth Avenue for decades, and sees
everything there is to see from her penthouse view ...
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