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Elements of Style

Wendy Wasserstein

3/5 ( ratings)

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, 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 . . . 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.
"Pure Wendy! She effortlessly makes the leap from stage to page with a novel that is loving, compassionate, flat-out funny. Wendy loved the word 'scintillating, ' which is the best way to describe her stunning "Elements of Style.""
--John Guare
"Wasserstein gets the trappings and tribulations right, making her depiction of the rich and fab trying to connect with one another witty and entertaining."
--"Publishers Weekly"
"Bold, nimble, and funny to its fingertips, "Elements of Style" is a delight, a triumph. A book that no self-respecting New Yorker should be without. Those cursed with the hell of multiple residences will self-evidently need several copies--and spares, for houseguests."
--Flora Fraser

Language: English

Pages: 307

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf

Release: April 18, 2006

ISBN: 1400042313

ISBN 13: 9781400042319

Elements of Style

Wendy Wasserstein

3/5 ( ratings)

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, 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 . . . 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.
"Pure Wendy! She effortlessly makes the leap from stage to page with a novel that is loving, compassionate, flat-out funny. Wendy loved the word 'scintillating, ' which is the best way to describe her stunning "Elements of Style.""
--John Guare
"Wasserstein gets the trappings and tribulations right, making her depiction of the rich and fab trying to connect with one another witty and entertaining."
--"Publishers Weekly"
"Bold, nimble, and funny to its fingertips, "Elements of Style" is a delight, a triumph. A book that no self-respecting New Yorker should be without. Those cursed with the hell of multiple residences will self-evidently need several copies--and spares, for houseguests."
--Flora Fraser

Language: English

Pages: 307

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf

Release: April 18, 2006

ISBN: 1400042313

ISBN 13: 9781400042319

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