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A comedy about New York's urban gentry living in a post-9/11 world
Knopf
April 2006
320 pages
ISBN: 1400042313
Hardcover
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Women's Fiction Contemporary
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author of the
essay collection Shiksa Goddess ("Utterly
delicious"--Judith Thurman), a dazzling debut novel, a
comedy about New York’s urban gentry living in a post-9/11
world--the arbiters of fashion and the doyennes of charity
balls; about the rich and the nouveau rich(er), the
glamorous and the desperate to be. We meet Francesca Weissman, the Upper East Side pediatrician
rated number one by Manhattan magazine, who takes us into
the upper strata of privilege and aspiration (she’s
originally from Queens with a father in hosiery; life on the
fringes of glittering New York is fine with her) . . . Samantha Acton, thoroughbred descendant of the Van
Rensselaers and the Carnegies, who defines the social order
in the great tradition of Mrs. Astor and Babe Paley . . . Judy Tremont from Modesto, California, daughter of a
cop--her life’s work, her obsession, is New York society and
its richest families . . . Barry Santorini, Republican, moviemaker, winner of twelve
Oscars, and his wife, the Italian supermarket heiress and
former media rep for Giorgio Armani . . . and many more. As Elements of Style opens out, we see a madcap
mosaic of the social lives and mores of twenty-first century
Manhattan--of romance, work, family, and friendship.
Satiric, fierce, touching--and deliciously Wasserstein.
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