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A Certain Age

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A Certain Age Tama Janowitz PB list price $13.00 Anchor Books (July 2000) ISBN: 0385496117 336 pages average review: Reviews: This gets: a from tricia: Don't even bother picking up this piece-of-trash-poor-excuse-for-adult-trade "novel." Possibly the worst book I've ever read. This gets: a from sarah: It seems a bit superficial to the untrained eye, those who cannot readinto subtle irony and don't have the stomach for books without hollywood endings won't understand this book. From the back cover: 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. eryka.com scale: So good you just can't stand it. Almost that good. Sort of good. Generally a waste of time. Destined for the recycler. If you'd like to review this book, or another, click here Similar books by category: women writers | american | new yorkers Go home | Go to fiction home © 2002 eryka.com. All rights reserved.