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Elements of style : a novel
- Title
- Elements of style : a novel / Wendy Wasserstein.
- Author
- Wasserstein, Wendy.
- Publication
- New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2006.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 06-8347 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 307 p.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- A comic novel about New York's urban gentry living in a post-9/11 world--the arbiters of fashion and the doyennes of charity balls; about the rich and the nouveau rich(er), the glamorous and the desperate to be. We meet Francesca Weissman, the Upper East Side pediatrician rated number one by Manhattan magazine, who takes us into the upper strata of privilege and aspiration (she's originally from Queens with a father in hosiery); Samantha Acton, thoroughbred descendant of Old New York, who defines the social order in the great tradition of Mrs. Astor and Babe Paley; Judy Tremont from Modesto, California, daughter of a cop--her life's work, her obsession, is New York society and its richest families; Barry Santorini, Republican, moviemaker, winner of twelve Oscars, and his wife, the Italian supermarket heiress and former media rep for Giorgio Armani; and many more.--From publisher description.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Satire.
- Call Number
- JFE 06-8347
- ISBN
- 1400042313
- LCCN
- 2005044962
- 9781400042319
- OCLC
- 61200737
- Author
- Wasserstein, Wendy.
- Title
- Elements of style : a novel / Wendy Wasserstein.
- Imprint
- New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2006.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9781400042319
- Research Call Number
- JFE 06-8347