Elements of Style
by Wendy Wasserstein | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 1400042313 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 1400042313 Global Overview for this book
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Burned CDS
Narrator: Cynthia Nixon
Program Format: Abridged
Random House Audio, 2006
6 hours and 6 min.
What the Critics Say
"Wasserstein gets the trappings and tribulations (of friendship and of romance) right, making her depiction of the rich and fab trying to connect with one another witty and entertaining." (Publishers Weekly)
Publisher's Summary
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author of the essay collection Shiksa Goddess, 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 #1 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 12 Oscars, and his wife, the Italian supermarket heiress and former media rep for Giorgio Armani, and many more.
As Elements of Style opens, we see a madcap mosaic of the social lives and mores of 21st century Manhattan, of romance, work, family, and friendship. Satiric, fierce, touching, and deliciously Wasserstein.
©2006 Wendy Wasserstein (P)2006 Random House, Inc. Random House Audio, a division of Random House, Inc.
Narrator: Cynthia Nixon
Program Format: Abridged
Random House Audio, 2006
6 hours and 6 min.
What the Critics Say
"Wasserstein gets the trappings and tribulations (of friendship and of romance) right, making her depiction of the rich and fab trying to connect with one another witty and entertaining." (Publishers Weekly)
Publisher's Summary
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author of the essay collection Shiksa Goddess, 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 #1 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 12 Oscars, and his wife, the Italian supermarket heiress and former media rep for Giorgio Armani, and many more.
As Elements of Style opens, we see a madcap mosaic of the social lives and mores of 21st century Manhattan, of romance, work, family, and friendship. Satiric, fierce, touching, and deliciously Wasserstein.
©2006 Wendy Wasserstein (P)2006 Random House, Inc. Random House Audio, a division of Random House, Inc.
I got laid off from my job in Garland, so I no longer have the 2 hour commute one way.
Now that my commute is 5 mins or less, I really don't have time for audios. So, the few that I have as downloads will go PC (because I can still do them via ipod when I go walking or workout or whatever) but most will go avl.
Now that my commute is 5 mins or less, I really don't have time for audios. So, the few that I have as downloads will go PC (because I can still do them via ipod when I go walking or workout or whatever) but most will go avl.
Will burn for cowgirl-up
Title: Elements of Style
Author: Wendy Wasserstein
My Area of Interest: Chic-lit
Castaway - I really could not get into this at all. I kept getting lost, it jumped too much.
Somehow in the various moves, I have lost this one... it has ended up in BC'ing Heaven. :(
