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Cargando... Elements of Style (2006)por Wendy Wasserstein
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 A posthumous work by a beloved writer can only be welcomed with open and respectful arms. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein's first novel, Elements of Style , arrives just three months after her death at age 55. It is a satiric tale of good versus shallow, an Upper East Side sliver of the Big Apple, set in the wake of 9/11.  Although the novel doesn't quite pull off that drastic shift from satire to tragedy, it's generally a sleek, entertaining read that shares much of the wit and astuteness of Wasserstein's plays (like "The Heidi Chronicles," which won the Pulitzer Prize).  There is a jittery, almost desperate quality to "Elements of Style" and enough references to the similarly themed "Age of Innocence" to raise unfavorable comparisons between Ms. Wasserstein and Edith Wharton. Like so many chick-lit authors, Ms. Wasserstein runs up a laundry list of brand names as a way of demonstrating command of a milieu. (Bonpoint, Dolce & Gabbana, Balenciaga and Manolo Blahnik appear on the first three pages alone.) In fact, all it does is date the novel. Distinciones
A comic novel 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); Samantha Acton, thoroughbred descendant of Old New York, 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.--From publisher description. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I listened to the audio version of this book. The audio production was good and the narrator, Kathe Mazur, did a fine job. (