| From the bestselling author of Slaves of New York comes a hilarious， clear-eyed， satiric novel about the sad plight of a misguided woman on the make in Manhattan. Thirty-two-year-old Florence Collins is an "aging filly-about-town"--still beautiful enough to be (sometimes) invited to the best parties and the right restaurants， but unmarried and rapidly going broke. In her world， marriage to a wealthy man is all that can save her， although Florence s hard-hearted search for security and status takes her on an inevitable downward spiral.New York "society novels" at the turn of the nineteenth century gave us a piercing look at the world and rituals of the city s wealthy; Janowitz here casts that tradition in a fresh light， giving us a tirn-of-the-century society novel that demonstrates how little seems to have changed. In a sly and unforgettable portrait of New York s haute monde， Janowitz brilliantly evokes a young woman s struggle for love and survival in the city that is as unforgiving today as it was a hundred years ago. |
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