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When Florence Collins sets out for a weekend in the Hamptons, her life spirals into a disastrous series of mishaps that include an unwanted night time visit from her friend's husband, the near drowning of their daughter, a bad financial gamble, and her expulsion from the premises.
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London. 22 cm. 320 pages. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Idioma Inglés. Tama Janowitz .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 0747544964; 9780747544968
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Ever gone mad with a credit card? Wished you lived in New York? Craved upward-mobility? This tale of social climbing and compulsive spending, by the author of Slaves of New York, American Dad, A Cannibal in Manhatten and The Male Cross-Dresser Support Group, will cure you. For good.
Florence Collins is assistant director at a second-rate auction house. She doesn't earn enough to support her lifestyle, which requires the purchase of vast quantities of designer clothes and over-priced, pre-prepared foodstuffs. The cash she inherited from her mother is running out fast, she's 32--"A Certain Age" (or, according to NY society gossip columns, an "aging filly-about-town")--fully conscious of her own shallowness and lack of principles, and desperate for a husband. A rich husband. A very very very rich husband.
Janowitz's witty, nasty novel shows how Florence's crass attempts to capture this elusive creature draw her into a downward spiral through the superficial world of air-kissing, baby showers, fashionable art, infidelity and child-neglect, into her own personal hell. More self-destructive than Madame Bovary, like Bridget Jones with the nice bits amputated, in Florence Collins Tama Janowitz has created a tragi-comic anti-heroine who is just one big fatal flaw. Read it and shriek. --Lisa Gee
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- PublisherBloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0747544964
- ISBN 13 9780747544968
- BindingHardcover
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- Number of pages320
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