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One Fifth Avenue

Autor Candace Bushnell
en Limba Engleză Paperback – apr 2016

Descoperim în One Fifth Avenue o lucrare de ficțiune contemporană care respectă și totodată rafinează convențiile romanului de moravuri. Deși la suprafață pare o cronică a luxului, structura sa subversează așteptările, transformând o clădire Art Deco din Manhattan într-un personaj central care dictează destine. Considerăm că forța acestui text rezidă în modul în care Candace Bushnell cartografiază ambiția feminină nu doar prin prisma relațiilor, ci prin posesia unui spațiu fizic care confirmă succesul.

La intersecția dintre Sex and the City și Trading Up, această carte combină observația acidă a ritualurilor de împerechere socială cu o analiză tăioasă a ierarhiilor bazate pe avere și proprietate. Dacă în lucrările anterioare accentul cădea pe căutarea iubirii, aici miza este stabilitatea și prestigiul. Subliniem finețea cu care autoarea alternează perspectivele — de la soția unui magnat de fonduri de investiții la o actriță nonconformistă — creând un mozaic uman ce amintește de realismul social al lui Edith Wharton. Ritmul este alert, susținut de un ton ironic și înțelept, care nu iartă nicio slăbiciune a elitei newyorkeze. Față de 4 Blondes, unde cinismul era mai pronunțat, One Fifth Avenue oferă o privire mai matură și mai stratificată asupra dorinței de apartenență, demonstrând că, deși decorul se schimbă, setea de putere rămâne neschimbată de la Epoca Aurită încoace.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781401341053
ISBN-10: 1401341055
Pagini: 460
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Editura: HACHETTE BOOKS

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută o radiografie inteligentă a înaltei societăți din New York, dincolo de sclipiciul superficial. Veți câștiga o perspectivă fascinantă asupra modului în care adresa și mediul construit modelează identitatea socială. Este lectura ideală pentru cei care au apreciat spiritul critic din Lipstick Jungle și doresc să exploreze complexitatea ambiției feminine într-un cadru urban iconic.


Despre autor

Candace Bushnell este o figură centrală a literaturii americane contemporane, celebră pentru volumul Sex and the City, care a revoluționat modul în care sunt narate viața socială și sexuală a femeilor moderne. Opera sa, care include titluri precum The Carrie Diaries și Is There Still Sex in the City?, explorează constant teme legate de feminism, succes și dinamica puterii în mediul urban. Locuind în New York, Bushnell scrie din interiorul universului pe care îl descrie, fiind considerată un fin observator al transformărilor sociale și culturale care definesc metropola americană.


Descriere scurtă

From one of the most consistently astute and engaging social commentators of our day comes another look at the tough and tender women of New York City--this time, through the lens of where they live.

One Fifth Avenue, the Art Deco beauty towering over one of Manhattan's oldest and most historically hip neighborhoods, is a one-of-a-kind address, the sort of building you have to earn your way into--one way or another. For the women in Candace Bushnell's new novel, One Fifth Avenue, this edifice is essential to the lives they've carefully established--or hope to establish. From the hedge fund king's wife to the aging gossip columnist to the free-spirited actress (a recent refugee from L.A.), each person's game plan for a rich life comes together under the soaring roof of this landmark building.

Acutely observed and mercilessly witty, One Fifth Avenue is a modern-day story of old and new money, that same combustible mix that Edith Wharton mastered in her novels about New York's Gilded Age and F. Scott Fitzgerald illuminated in his Jazz Age tales. Many decades later, Bushnell's New Yorkers suffer the same passions as those fictional Manhattanites from eras past: They thirst for power, for social prominence, and for marriages that are successful--at least to the public eye. But Bushnell is an original, and One Fifth Avenue is so fresh that it reads as if sexual politics, real estate theft, and fortunes lost in a day have never happened before.

From Sex and the City through four successive novels, Bushnell has revealed a gift for tapping into the zeitgeist of any New York minute and, as one critic put it, staying uncannily "just the slightest bit ahead of the curve." And with each book, she has deepened her range, but with a light touch that makes her complex literary accomplishments look easy. Her stories progress so nimbly and ring so true that it can seem as if anyone might write them--when, in fact, no one writes novels quite like Candace Bushnell. Fortunately for us, with One Fifth Avenue, she has done it again.

Recenzii

"ONE FIFTH AVENUE is a modern comedy of manners -- a landmark novel, if you like. Its observations about money, the Internet, the function of art in society as wellas sex romps, social climbing and snobbery enhance Bushnell's reputation as an astute observer of modern life....Carrie Bradshaw wannabes as well as women (and men) near Bushnell's age -- she turns 50 this year -- will be pulled into this refreshing and highly entertaining novel about the power of money, sex and celebrity."—USA TODAY
"Bushnell...broadens her scope in her latest ode to New York strivers and sophisticates...The fun lies in the author's acute observations about everything from real estate envy to midlife crises."—More
"Where [Bushnell] goes, her army of stilletoed fans follow. You gotta love it: the conflict, the secrets-telling, the peek into the world of the rich and valueless. It all adds up to a juicy summer read."—New York Post
"One Fifth Avenue is all things an escapist read she be: quick and wicked and wry. There's a blown-out bitch to root against, a star-crossed couple to root for, and a Tim Gunn-style best friend who deserves his own book. Great, guiltless fun."—Entertainment Weekly

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One Fifth Avenue, the Art Deco beauty towering over Manhattan's hippest neighbourhood, is a one-of-a-kind address, the sort of building you have to earn your way into - one way or another.

For the women in Candace Bushnell's stellar new novel, One Fifth Avenue is at the heart of the lives they've carefully established, or hope to establish. There is Schiffer Diamond, a forty-something actress busily proving that women of style are truly ageless. There is spoiled, self-assured Lola, who is determined to launch herself into society and the arms of the right man by clawing a way into the building. Annalisa is the wife of a hedge fund manager and reluctant socialite, while bitter Mindy is married to an under-published writer and has been the family breadwinner for too long. And then there is Enid, the glamorous grande dame and gossip columnist, who has lived at One Fifth Avenue for decades, and sees everything there is to see from her penthouse view . . .