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Anchor
July 2000
On Sale: July 5, 2000
Featuring: Florence Collins
336 pages
ISBN: 0385496117
EAN: 9780385496117
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From the bestselling author of Slaves of New York comes a
hilarious, clear-eyed, satiric novel about the sad plight
of a misguided woman on the make in Manhattan. Thirty-two-
year-old Florence Collins is an "aging filly-about-town"--
still beautiful enough to be (sometimes) invited to the
best parties and the right restaurants, but unmarried and
rapidly going broke. In her world, marriage to a wealthy
man is all that can save her, although Florence's hard-
hearted search for security and status takes her on an
inevitable downward spiral. New York "society novels" at the turn of the nineteenth
century gave us a piercing look at the world and rituals of
the city's wealthy; Janowitz here casts that tradition in a
fresh light, giving us a tirn-of-the-century society novel
that demonstrates how little seems to have changed. In a
sly and unforgettable portrait of New York's haute monde,
Janowitz brilliantly evokes a young woman's struggle for
love and survival in the city that is as unforgiving today
as it was a hundred years ago.
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