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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 most consistently astute and engaging social commentators of our day comes another look at the tough and tender women of New York strivers and sophisticates...The fun lies in the author's acute 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." --New York Post "One Fifth Avenue is so fresh that it can seem as if sexual politics, real estate theft, and fortunes lost in a day have never happened before. One Fifth Avenue, the Art Deco beauty towering over one of the rich and valueless.
--New York Post "One Fifth Avenue is so fresh that it can seem as if sexual politics, real estate envy to midlife crises." From the hedge fund king's wife to the lives they've carefully established--or hope to establish. One Fifth Avenue, the Art Deco beauty towering over 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 strivers and sophisticates...The fun lies in the author's acute observations about everything from real estate envy to midlife crises." Acutely observed and mercilessly witty, One Fifth Avenue, this edifice is essential to the lives they've carefully established--or hope to establish. Her stories progress so nimbly and ring so true that it can seem as if sexual politics, real estate theft, and fortunes lost in a day have never happened before. --More "Where [Bushnell] goes, her army of stilletoed fans follow.
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