<![CDATA[Morningside Heights: A Novel]]>

false <![CDATA[Morningside Heights: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170561938m/61173.jpg 61173 2 Following the tremendous success of her first book, a nonfiction work on housekeeping that became a surprise bestseller, Cheryl Mendelson brings to her debut novel the same intensely readable style that made Home Comforts so popular. In the spirit of Anthony Trollope, she roots her story very much in a specific time and place—1999, in an old-fashioned New York City neighborhood that’s becoming rapidly gentrified—and the enormously engaging result resembles a twentieth-century version of The Way We Live Now. Anne and Charles Braithwaite have spent their entire married life in a sedate old apartment building in Morningside Heights, a northern Manhattan neighborhood filled with intellectual, artistic souls like themselves, who thrive on the area’s abundant parks, cultural offferings, and reasonably priced real estate. The Braithwaites, musicians with several young children, are at the core of a circle of friends who make their living as writers, psychiatrists, and professors. But as the novel opens, their comfortable life is being threatened as a buoyant economy sends newly rich Wall Street types scurrying northward in search of good investments and more space. At the same time, the Braithwaites weather the difficult love lives of their friends, and all of the characters confront their fears that the institutions and social values that have until now provided them with meaning and stability—science, religion, the arts—are in increasing decline. Though the group clings to the rituals and promises of such institutions, the Braithwaites’ imminent departure sends shock waves through their community. As the family contemplates the impossible—a move to the suburbs—their predicament represents the end of a cultured kind of city life that middle-class families can no longer afford. This intelligent and captivating social chronicle is the first of a trilogy of novels about Morningside Heights; readers sure to be drawn in by Mendelson’s habit-forming prose have much more to look forward to. From the Hardcover edition. 2251692 2003 Morningside Heights: A Novel total:141|5:15|4:56|3:42|2:18|1:10| 141 471 226 33 0 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 10 07:32:53 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 11 07:38:23 -0700 2008
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Someone else made the comparison to Jane Austen, and I think that's apt. The main characters are a particular bran...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Jun 30 10:00:16 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 10:05:15 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 06:40:27 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 10 06:18:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Aug 13 15:37:19 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 15:38:56 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 31 21:45:22 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 21:45:43 -0800 2009 ]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 20:47:26 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 26 12:54:05 -0800 2009 1 0 false false Mon Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 06 15:07:45 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 05 09:08:38 -0700 2008
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