Widely praised in hardcover and now available in paperback, this comedy of contemporary Manhattan manners has all the panache of a Preston Sturges film and many of the trappings: a blue-blooded heiress, a handsome young artist, ladies who lunch and men who drink, not to mention trust funds, social climbers, and Christie's auctions galore.
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From Publishers Weekly
Moneyed Manhattanites, the most frequent targets of Hamilton's barbed cartoons in the New Yorker , also form the cast of his third novel, a mordantly funny portrayal of the war between the upwardly mobile and the already wealthy. When she meets talented, handsome artist Vincent Booth, Mary Brigham thinks she's discovered perfect husband material: he is sexy, caring and just bohemian enough to irritate her multimillionaire father. Best of all, Vincent doesn't care about her richesuntil they enter New York society as a couple. Growing restless in the museum job Mary has procured for him, Vincent begins an affair with Laura Montgomery, a chilly, amoral beauty, and discovers a way to make a fortune that isn't as foolproof as he thinks. While casting a sharp eye on the world of dinner parties, galas and illicit alliances, Hamilton offers thinly fictionalized, lightly venomous versions of certain networks, magazines, anchormen and museums that make for some entertaining guessing games. First serial to Cosmopolitan.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Hamilton, caustic cartoonist for the New Yorker , satirizes patrons of the arts in this comic novel. Vincent Booth, a fair painter and competent art historian, marries bland heiress Mary Brigham so he can live with no worries and plenty of money. Naive about high society's schemers and sycophants, he's swindled by an unscrupulous curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Meanwhile, our hapless hero invests all his energy in a romance with the fickle daughter of a famous film director. The author gives amusing insights into New York's art and publishing worlds, and his story is as much fun as the best novels of Peter De Vries. Joyce Smothers, Monmouth Cty. Lib., Manalapan, N.J.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Quite soon after he began what was at the time just a drawing of an American eating in a restaurant in France, Vincent Booth realized he would make a painting of it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Vincent Booth, New York, Laura Montgomery, Sir David, Harry Buntley, William Willoughby, James Montgomery, Toby Hyman, Mary Brigham, Missy Ferguson, Uncle Harry, Alfred Brigham, Natasha Glebov, Sam Beecham, Bernie Stein, Ted Sanchez, Tom Harrison, Miss Montgomery, New Haven, Rainey Phillips, Sally Anne Coombs, Catherine the Great, Sondra Laval, Jean Marc Nattier, Pepe Deschamps New!
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Quite soon after he began what was at the time just a drawing of an American eating in a restaurant in France, Vincent Booth realized he would make a painting of it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Vincent Booth, New York, Laura Montgomery, Sir David, Harry Buntley, William Willoughby, James Montgomery, Toby Hyman, Mary Brigham, Missy Ferguson, Uncle Harry, Alfred Brigham, Natasha Glebov, Sam Beecham, Bernie Stein, Ted Sanchez, Tom Harrison, Miss Montgomery, New Haven, Rainey Phillips, Sally Anne Coombs, Catherine the Great, Sondra Laval, Jean Marc Nattier, Pepe Deschamps New!
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Front Cover | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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books:
- Palm Beach by Pat Booth on page 29
- Personal Memoirs: Ulysses S. Grant (Modern Library War) by Ulysses S. Grant on page 254
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