{"product_id":"book-av32","title":"Elements of Style","description":"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author of the essay collection \u003ci\u003eShiksa Goddess\u003c\/i\u003e (“Utterly delicious”—Judith Thurman), a dazzling debut novel, a comedy about New York’s urban gentry living in a post-9\/11 world—the arbiters of fashion and the doyennes of charity balls; about the rich and the nouveau rich(er), the glamorous and the desperate to be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe meet Francesca Weissman, the Upper East Side pediatrician rated number one by \u003ci\u003eManhattan\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, who takes us into the upper strata of privilege and aspiration (she’s originally from Queens with a father in hosiery; life on the fringes of glittering New York is fine with her) . . . Samantha Acton, thoroughbred descendant of the Van Rensselaers and the Carnegies, who defines the social order in the great tradition of Mrs. Astor and Babe Paley . . . Judy Tremont from Modesto, California, daughter of a cop—her life’s work, her obsession, is New York society and its richest families . . . Barry Santorini, Republican, moviemaker, winner of twelve Oscars, and his wife, the Italian supermarket heiress and former media rep for Giorgio Armani . . . and many more.   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs \u003ci\u003eElements of Style \u003c\/i\u003eopens out, we see a madcap mosaic of the social lives and mores of twenty-first century Manhattan—of romance, work, family, and friendship. Satiric, fierce, touching—and deliciously Wasserstein.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Pure Wendy! She effortlessly makes the leap from stage to page with a novel that is loving, compassionate, flat-out funny.  Wendy loved the word ‘scintillating,’ which is the best way to describe her stunning \u003ci\u003eElements of Style.\u003c\/i\u003e”\u003cbr\u003e—John Guare\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Wasserstein gets the trappings and tribulations (of friendship and of romance) right, making her depiction of the rich and fab trying to connect with one another witty and entertaining.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Bold, nimble, and funny to its fingertips, \u003ci\u003eElements of Style\u003c\/i\u003e is a delight, a triumph.  A book that no self-respecting New Yorker should be without.  Those cursed with the hell of multiple residences will self-evidently need several copies—and spares, for houseguests.”\u003cbr\u003e—Flora Fraser","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49340402991408,"sku":"BDav32","price":14.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/325740-av32-Square.jpg?v=1734043224","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-av32","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}