โ Scribed by Candace Bushnell
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Sex in the City goes middle-aged, mordant and slapstick in Bushnell's chronicle of writers, actors and Wall Street whizzes clashing at One Fifth Avenue, a Greenwich Village art deco jewel crammed with regal rich, tarty upstarts and misguided lovers. When a Queen of Society dies, a vicious scramble for her penthouse apartment ensues, and it's attorney Annalisa and her hedge-funder husband, Paul Rice, who land the palatial pad, roiling the building's rivalries. There's Billy Litchfield, an art dealer who slobbers over the wealthy; strivers Mindy and James Gooch, and their tech-savvy 13-year-old Sam, the most hilariously bitter (and strangely successful) family in the building; gossip columnist Enid Merle and her screenwriter nephew, Philip Oakland, who struggle to uphold traditions and their souls; actress Schiffer Diamond, who lands a hit TV series, and her old love; and Lola Fabrikant, a cunning Atlanta gold digger whose greatest ambition is to become Carrie Bradshaw. Here are bloggers and bullies, misfits and misanthropes, dear hearts and black-hearts, dogfights and catty squalls spun into a darkly humorous chick-lit saga. (Sept.)
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It was part of the pain of living in Manhattan, this overwhelming ache for prime real estate, writes Bushnell in her firstnovelsince Lipstick Jungle (2005). Two events throw the inhabitants of One Fifth Avenue, Manhattans ritziest address,into a tizzy: the return of beautiful actress Schiffer Diamond, and the death ofLouise Houghton, who owned the buildings swankiest apartment. Gossip columnist Enid Merle and her dashing nephew Philip Oakland think Louises now-availablethree-story apartment should be divided up,while ambitious Mindy Gooch, whose husbandis on the cusp of literary stardom, wants it sold to a high bidder. Mindy gets her way, and nouveau riche couple Paul and Annalisasnap it upfor $15 million. But when Mindy refuses to let Paul install a wall-unit air conditioner, he declares war, inciting a conflict that draws in all the residents of the building. Other charactersinclude a schemingLolita type who tries to sleep her way into One Fifth and a penniless male socialite who has aspired to One Fifth for decades. Devotees of Bushnells megahitSex in the Cityandfans of New Yorkaimed satirewill enjoy this scathing alls-fair-in-real-estate novel. --Kristine Huntley
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