
Elements of Style
A Novel
Wendy Wasserstein(Author)
Vintage Books (Publisher)
Published on 8. May 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-1-4000-7687-1 (ISBN)
Description
Elements of Style, the Pulitzer Prize—winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein's first novel, is a scathing comedy about New York's high society facing the post—9/11 world. Francesca Weissman, an Upper East Side pediatrician rated number one by Manhattan magazine, floats on the fringes of the upper strata of privilege and aspiration. Through her bemused eyes we meet the thoroughbred socialite Samantha Acton; relentless social climber Judy Tremont; Barry Santorini, an Oscar-winning moviemaker accustomed to having his way; his supermarket heiress wife, Clarice; and more, tossed together in a frothy stew of outrageous conspicuous consumption and adulterous affairs that play out on Page Six. But when Wasserstein's madcap tour of the social lives and mores of twenty-first-century Manhattan veers into tragedy, we finally see the true cost of her characters' choices, and the beating heart of this dazzling novel.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Random House USA Inc
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
378 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4000-7687-1 (9781400076871)
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Wendy Wasserstein