false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255607905m/4971261.jpg 2804776 17 From 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 City--this time, through the lens of where they live. <P>One Fifth Avenue, the Art Deco beauty towering over one of Manhattan's oldest and most historically hip neighborhoods, 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 new novel, <i>One Fifth Avenue</i>, this edifice is essential to the lives they've carefully established--or hope to establish. From the hedge fund king's wife to the aging gossip columnist to the free-spirited actress (a recent refugee from L.A.), each person's game plan for a rich life comes together under the soaring roof of this landmark building. </p> <P>Acutely observed and mercilessly witty, <i>One Fifth Avenue</i> is a modern-day story of old and new money, that same combustible mix that Edith Wharton mastered in her novels about New York's Gilded Age and F. Scott Fitzgerald illuminated in his Jazz Age tales. Many decades later, Bushnell's New Yorkers suffer the same passions as those fictional Manhattanites from eras past: They thirst for power, for social prominence, and for marriages that are successful--at least to the public eye. But Bushnell is an original, and <i>One Fifth Avenue</i> is so fresh that it reads as if sexual politics, real estate theft, and fortunes lost in a day have never happened before. </p> <P>From <i>Sex and the City</i> 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 curve." And with each book, she has deepened her range, but with a light touch that makes her complex literary accomplishments look easy. Her stories progress so nimbly and ring so true that it can seem as if anyone might write them--when, in fact, no one writes novels quite like Candace Bushnell. Fortunately for us, with <i>One Fifth Avenue</i>, she has done it again. </p> 2260190 1 9 2008 One Fifth Avenue total:2266|5:176|4:570|3:891|2:458|1:171| 2266 6920 3776 535 2804776 1400139027 9781401390273 2044 482 3.05 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255607925m/2804776.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2804776.One_Fifth_Avenue 1 5 false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 10 09:13:22 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 10 09:14:56 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2804776 1400139027 9781401390273 2044 482 3.05 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255607925m/2804776.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2804776.One_Fifth_Avenue 1 2 false Thu Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 20:32:10 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 20:32:27 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2804776 1400139027 9781401390273 2044 482 3.05 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255607925m/2804776.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2804776.One_Fifth_Avenue 2 3 false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 09 19:26:01 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 10 18:55:56 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2804776 1400139027 9781401390273 2044 482 3.05 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255607925m/2804776.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2804776.One_Fifth_Avenue 4 2 false Sat Jan 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 16:54:08 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 16:00:24 -0800 2009 1 1. There are lots of characters, seemingly only linked by a very thin thread. Don't worry, you will start to remember who they are and who they love and hate after 50 pages or so.
2. It's a fairy tale, so ple...more...]]> 2804776 1400139027 9781401390273 2044 482 3.05 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255607925m/2804776.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2804776.One_Fifth_Avenue 5 2 false Mon Jan 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Oct 10 13:29:16 -0700 2008 Mon Jan 05 07:48:12 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2804776 1400139027 9781401390273 2044 482 3.05 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255607925m/2804776.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2804776.One_Fifth_Avenue 3 1 false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 09 11:37:23 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 09 11:38:21 -0700 2008 Real Estate is the New Black
This novel, One Fifth Avenue, gets its name from the Art Deco building in New York's ultra-hip Greenwich Village. Living there has a certain status to which the middle-aged main characters aspire. In "Sex and the City" it was shoes. In this book, it's real...more...]]> 2804776 1400139027 9781401390273 2044 482 3.05 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255607925m/2804776.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2804776.One_Fifth_Avenue 4 0 false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 20 20:17:13 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 20:19:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2804776 1400139027 9781401390273 2044 482 3.05 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255607925m/2804776.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2804776.One_Fifth_Avenue 1 0 true Thu Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 06:38:42 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 07:15:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2804776 1400139027 9781401390273 2044 482 3.05 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255607925m/2804776.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2804776.One_Fifth_Avenue 4 0 false Mon Aug 17 07:41:55 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 07:42:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4625979 0349119546 9780349119540 33 8 3.05 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4625979.One_Fifth_Avenue 2 0 false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 06:51:23 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 06:59:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2254308 1401301614 9781401301613 134 33 3.05 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255607915m/2254308.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2254308.One_Fifth_Avenue 4 1 false Tue Oct 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 14 15:07:53 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 14 12:44:51 -0700 2008
The book starts off pretty slow because there are so many characters to keep track of, and I was trying to pin one down as the main character. And there really isn't ...more...]]> 2804776 1400139027 9781401390273 2044 482 3.05 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255607925m/2804776.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2804776.One_Fifth_Avenue 2 0 false Mon May 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 16:29:52 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 15:26:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2254308 1401301614 9781401301613 134 33 3.05 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255607915m/2254308.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2254308.One_Fifth_Avenue 4 0 false Sat Sep 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 22:43:12 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 19:34:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2804776 1400139027 9781401390273 2044 482 3.05 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255607925m/2804776.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2804776.One_Fifth_Avenue 2 0 true Tue Jul 21 13:02:41 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 12:04:31 -0700 2009 1 Sex and the City. Carrie Bradshaw was NOT a likeable character. I don't know if I'd even define Sex as a book, because it's written more like a ...more...]]> 2804776 1400139027 9781401390273 2044 482 3.05 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255607925m/2804776.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2804776.One_Fifth_Avenue 1 0 false Mon Aug 24 09:29:06 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 09:48:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4625979 0349119546 9780349119540 33 8 3.05 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4625979.One_Fifth_Avenue 2 0 false Sun Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 08:33:14 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 05:23:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2804776 1400139027 9781401390273 2044 482 3.05 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255607925m/2804776.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2804776.One_Fifth_Avenue 2 1 false Sun Oct 05 06:39:18 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 05 06:41:27 -0700 2008 2804776 1400139027 9781401390273 2044 482 3.05 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255607925m/2804776.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2804776.One_Fifth_Avenue 4 0 false Mon Mar 23 04:10:25 -0700 2009 Sat Feb 28 09:36:50 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 23 04:10:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2804776 1400139027 9781401390273 2044 482 3.05 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255607925m/2804776.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2804776.One_Fifth_Avenue 4 0 false Mon Mar 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 06:11:28 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 18:50:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2804776 1400139027 9781401390273 2044 482 3.05 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255607925m/2804776.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2804776.One_Fifth_Avenue 3 0 false Sun Aug 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 17:48:20 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 17:51:31 -0700 2009
Candace Bushnell got famous from Sex and the City- and she decided to write a novel about living in a luxurious/prestigious Manhattan Co-op.... well you know what- reading about the wealthy, or those who "have" and reali...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=4971261