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After a disastrous trip to her friend Natalie's house in the Hamptons, Florence Collins spends her time and money doing everything she possibly can to attract a wealthy husband, in a hilarious social satire about a woman on a quest for a husband in modern Manhattan. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.
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Tama Janowitz is the author of Slaves of New York, A Cannibal in Manhattan, American Dad, The Male Cross-Dressers Support Group, and By the Shores of Gichee Gumee, and is the recipient of two NEA grants in fiction, as well as a New York State Council of the Arts Award in Fiction. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.
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tselling 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
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
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- PublisherAnchor Books
- Publication date2000
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- ISBN 13 9780385496117
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