One Fifth Avenue

One Fifth Avenue

by Candace Bushnell (Author)

Synopsis

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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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 480
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 23 Sep 2008

ISBN 10: 1408701111
ISBN 13: 9781408701119

Media Reviews
Praise for SEX AND THE CITY: **'Intriguing and highly entertaining' Helen Fielding (author of BRIDGET JONES' DIARY) **'Imagine Jane Austen with a martini, or perhaps Jonathan Swift on rollerblades' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ** 'Imagine THE SUN edited by Jane Austen ... hilarious ... a compulsively readable book, served on bite-sized chunks of irrepressible irreverence' MARIE CLAIRE
Author Bio
Candace Bushnell is the author of the novel SEX AND THE CITY, which inspired the HBO hit TV series and film. Her fourth novel, LIPSTICK JUNGLE, is now a drama screened on NBC. She has been described in the UK press as a 'genius' and 'Jane Austen with a Martini'.