A Certain Age - Rilegato

Janowitz, Tama

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ISBN 10: 0385496109 ISBN 13: 9780385496100

Casa editrice: Doubleday, 1999

Riassunto

After a disastrous trip to her friend Natalie's house in the Hamptons, Florence Collins spends her time and money doing everything she possibly can to attract a wealthy husband, in a hilarious social satire about a woman on a quest for a husband in modern Manhattan. 40,000 first printing. Tour.

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Praise for the novels of Tama Janowitz:

"If there's anything Tama Janowitz knows about, it's the sheer savagery of our most chic and ultra-sophisticated social arrangements."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Outrageously funny...Janowitz is a sharp-tongued and funny writer."
--Chicago Tribune

"Her writing is wonderfully light. It combines the witticisms and fanciful observations of a Lewis Carroll or a Kurt Vonnegut with the occasional bite of Martin Amis...Brilliant and satirical and insightful...marvelously enjoyable."
--Dallas Times Herald

"A cracked and wonderful ride...Janowitz's writing comes out of a tradition of comic American misanthropy that can be traced back to Twain, passing along the way through such intervening figures as Dreiser, Nathanael West, and the author of whom she is most reminiscent, Ring Lardner."
--New York Newsday

"A feminist version of classic narratives of adventurous individualism such as Tom Jones and Tristram Shandy...Tama Janowitz's wit reminds one of a hip Grace Paley."
--San Francisco Chronicle

"A wry commentary on sexual politics and the Manhattan mating game...The subversive ending of this amusing high-spirited novel makes the twisted ride completely worth the effort."
--Vogue

L'autore

Tama Janowitz is the author of  Slaves of New York, American Dad, A Cannibal in Manhattan, The Male Cross-Dresser Support Group, and By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee. Her writing has appeared in numerous periodicals, including The New Yorker, Paris Review, Harper's, Vogue, and Elle. She was an Alfred Hodder Fellow in the Humanities at Princeton and the recipient of two NEA grants in fiction, as well as a New York State Council of the Arts award in fiction. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and child.

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• Editore: Doubleday
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0385496109
• ISBN 13: 9780385496100
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 317