false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182060556m/1227914.jpg 1227914 3 <div>She's the goddess of hearth and home, America's millionaire media maven of domesticity, Connecticut's most dazzling hostess, and everything in her world is perfect-except that Maggie Darling's picture-book life has suddenly gone off the rails. Amid the extravagant trappings of a Christmas Eve bash, she spies her swinish stockbroker husband slipping out of a powder room moments after his creamy young colleague. Matrimonial meltdown launches Maggie on a year of romance and misadventure, starting with an ill-fated fling with British rock star-turned-movie-actor Frederick Swann. Back home, a sniper is loose on the Merritt Parkway and a gang known as the Businessman's Lunch Posse is terrorizing patrons of Manhattan's four-star restaurants. Meanwhile, Maggie's son Hooper drops out of college and falls into the company of the sinister gangsta-rap group Chill Az Def. As calamity piles on catastrophe, can Maggie Darling brilliantly resolve the collapse of civilization as we wish we knew it?</div> 1216451 2003 Maggie Darling: A Modern Romance total:16|5:3|4:0|3:5|2:7|1:1| 16 45 26 5 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:24:41 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:24:41 -0800 2009 Kunstler has written several nonfiction treatises on urban decay (The City in Mind, The Geography of Nowhere), and he can't seem to keep that agenda out of his fiction. Most critics agree that Maggie Darling is a highly engaging comedy of manners up until the author uses his heroine's decline as a m...

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