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Uptown and Down [Mass Market Paperback]

Jennifer Anglade Dahlberg (Author)
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October 4, 2005
In her dynamic debut novel, Jennifer Anglade Dahlberg explores the headstrong ambitions and fragile dreams of a couple on top-and their drive for success, which tests the limits of privilege, love, and friendship in the most provocative of ways...

Nora Deschamps is an editor at a chic women's fashion magazine. Her husband Jeff Montgomery owns an independent record label that's edging into a mega-bucks hip-hop phenomenon. Tracked as one of New York Magazine's "25 Most Exciting Couples Under Forty," Nora and Jeff appear to have it all. But their future is about to be shaken, by Nora's on-the-rise career that's taking an intimate toll on their lives, by a crime that Jeff is powerless to prevent, and ultimately by the secret of a long-ago indiscretion and the revenge that now threatens all they've strived to achieve. From the uptown high-life to the downside of love, betrayal, and long-standing lies, Nora and Jeff must now fight harder than ever to learn the meaning of trust.

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About the Author

Jennifer Anglade Dahlberg grew up outside New York City and attended Columbia University.

Product Details

  • Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: NAL Trade (October 4, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0451216563
  • ISBN-13: 978-0451216564
  • Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,767,210 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great read when you want to escape into someone else's world, April 7, 2006
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One of the best books I've read this year.

It is a great read when you want to escape into someone else's world. And why not step into Nora's. Living in downtown Manhattan, successful glamourous Nora and her sexy successful husband Jeff have it all. She is advancing in her career as Jeff is breaking barriers as his hip-hop recording company grows. Manhattan at its best, and summers at the Hamptons. But with the success comes some challanges, and a past mistake coupled with pride threatens to break apart the couple that are so great together.

You'll love both Nora and Jeff including their flaws, and won't want the story to end. I've only been to NYC as a tourist, the book opened new places to me and gave a feeling of being in new Harlem and other places I didn't know. The author brings the people and places alive. Absolutely a book worth owning.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome read!, February 22, 2006
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The author writes so descriptively, so powerfully! She entertained all my senses to the flavor of New York. Her characters were so multi-faceted and interesting. This is so NOT the typical formula you see in popular African American fiction. I will definitely read her next work. She is a name I'll follow!
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3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad, September 12, 2007
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This was an exciting book about a young professional couple with fast-paced careers in NYC. This book is primarily about Nora and Jeff Montgomery and their mutual friend Hilton. But there is also some side drama concerning their parents and a scandalous neighbor. Though I liked the book overall, it felt like some of the characters were underdeveloped. Jeff's mother is an insufferable snob who never wanted her son to marry the daughter of a couple of Haitian immigrants. Their mysterious neighbor Olivia is also very haughty and looks down on Nora because she thinks that she is materialistic and superficial. And we know very little about the Deschamps, Nora's parents. They are not major characters, but a little more depth would have been useful in helping the reader to understand their behavior.

Other than that minor criticism, I enjoyed this book.
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New York, Rum Records, Hamilton Terrace, Bob Butler, Hamilton Heights, Long Beach, Larry Stark, Twelfth Street, East Side, Hilton Frears, Lawrence Stark, City College, New Rochelle, Oak Bluffs, Angela Montgomery, Craig Turner, Fifth Avenue, Grandma Lila, Long Island, Pink Bits, Stephanie Thomas, West Side, Amsterdam Avenue, East Coast, Madison Avenue
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