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From one of the very most consistently astute and engaging social commentators of the day comes another go through the tough and tender women of NY City--this time, through the lens of where they live.
One Fifth Avenue, the Art Deco beauty towering over one of Manhattan's oldest & most historically hip neighborhoods, is a one-of-a-kind address, the sort of building you have to earn your way into--one way or another. For the ladies in Candace Bushnell's new novel, One Fifth Avenue, this edifice is essential to the lives they've carefully established--or desire to establish. From your hedge fund king's wife to the aging gossip columnist to the free-spirited actress (a recently available refugee from L.A.), each person's game plan for a rich life comes together under the soaring roof of this landmark building.
Acutely observed and mercilessly witty, One Fifth Avenue is a modern-day story of old and new money, that same combustible mix that Edith Wharton mastered in her novels about New York's Gilded Age and F. Scott Fitzgerald illuminated in his Jazz Age tales. Many decades later, Bushnell's New Yorkers suffer the same passions as those fictional Manhattanites from eras past: They thirst for power, for social prominence, as well as for marriages that are successful--at least to the general public eye. But Bushnell is an original, and One Fifth Avenue is so fresh that this reads as if sexual politics, real estate theft, and fortunes lost in a day haven't happened before.
From Sex and the City through four successive novels, Bushnell has revealed a gift for tapping into the zeitgeist of any NY minute and, as one critic said, staying uncannily "just the slightest bit prior to the curve." And with each book, she has deepened her range, but with a light touch that makes her complex literary accomplishments look easy. Her stories progress so nimbly and ring so true that this can seem as if anyone might write them--when, in fact, no one writes novels that can compare with Candace Bushnell. Fortunately for all of us, with One Fifth Avenue, she has done it again.
