The Right Address

Zusatztext “Offers playful insight into a world … as catty as it is rarefied.” – Vogue “A winning novel … If you love soiety! scandal! and stories about the rich and the richer! look no further.” – Bookreporter.com “It’s impossible to resist the charms of this modern Manhattan fairy tale.” – People Informationen zum Autor Carrie Karasyov and Jill Kargman Klappentext The Right Address sears through the upper crust of New York's glittering Park Avenue scene to dish the dirt on the ladies who lunch, the gents who club, and the desperate climbers who will stop at nothing to join the backstabbing, champagne-sipping, socialite-eat-socialite stratosphere. When Melanie Sartomsky, wily Floridian flight attendant, snares billionaire divorcée Arthur "the coffin king” Korn, she is catapulted into the crème de la crème of Park Avenue society, where hiring the wrong decorator is tantamount to social suicide, and where, if you're anyone, your personal assistant has a personal assistant. But Melanie quickly discovers that in the world of the rich and idle, malicious gossip is as de rigeur as owning twenty pairs of Manolo Blahniks. And despite her frenzied plunge into the charity circuit and the right dinner reservations, her neighbors are Givenchy-clad vultures who see her as nothing more than a reinvented trailer trollop. To make matters worse, when a snide society-rag journalist rakes her over the coals, Melanie's reputation is toast. Meanwhile, Melanie is not the only billionaire in the neighborhood coming unhinged. Kleptomania, adultery, plagiarism, and a grisly Harlem sex murder are just a few of the secrets swirling under the pedigreed patina of furs and emeralds on Park Avenue. Authors Jill Kargman and Carrie Karasyov know a thing or two about their subject matter. They met at the Upper East Side's chic Spence School and claim that The Right Address is inspired by "the insane socialites we've eavesdropped on our entire lives.” Meow. So kick off your Jimmy Choos, crack open the Veuve Clicquot, and get ready for a rollicking, unforgettable tour of the richer-and-bitchier-than-thou set.Chapter 1 "She has zero taste." "Zilch." "What's that outfit all about? One-way ticket on the Tacky Express." "Like Roberto Cavalli threw up on her." "And her apartment . . ." "You've been?" "No. But the Kincaids have." "And?" "Constance said it looks as if it was decorated by Charles and Wonder." "Oh, right, the cheesy firm that just did that new Architectural Digest cover from Hades?" "No. I'm talking Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder. Only a blind person could select those horrendous fabrics." "Oh, Joan, you're too much!" As Wendy Marshall and Joan Coddington reapplied their lipstick and skewered their fellow guests at the Bateses' cocktail party at the Union Club, Melanie Korn sat paralyzed, in earshot but out of view. She had been unlocking the door to her stall in the powder room when she heard her name in the same sentence as the words "cheap," "classless," and "fried hair." She froze. At first she thought they must have been speaking of someone else. But as the duo continued, sharpening their swords and tongues, rendering her a decimated Melanie-kebab before her very ears, the blood slowly crept to her face. With stealth moves, she relocked the door to the stall and crept back to the toilet, where she sat down on the lid and pulled her legs up to her chest so no one would know she was there. She felt like the little boy in Witness , only she was the murder victim. "I mean, did you see those hideous metal cranes that she gave the Bates as an anniversary gift?" asked Wendy, incredulous. "Ugh! It was like Bangkok exploded in the foyer." "Tell me about it," said Joan. "The worst." "Admit it: they look shippe...

Product details

• Authors: Carrie Karasyov, Jill Kargman
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2005
• EAN: 9780767921268
• ISBN: 978-0-7679-2126-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 205 mm x 18 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature