Better Homes & Husbands (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780312330637)

980 Park, a fictional, pre-war co-op on the Northwest corner of Park Avenue and 83rd Street, houses the rich and famous-Sidney Sapphire, the blonde anchorwoman of ABC News, Angela Somoza, the gorgeous Nicaraguan jet-setter, Bob Horowitz, the former chairman of the United Jewish Appeals, and the usual collection of banking and industrial CEO's, Wall Street magnates, and white-haired philanthropists. The Brooklyn-born doorman, Vinnie Ferretti, joins the ranks when he becomes a major fashion designer.

The building's board, rich as clotted cream, sips gin in the afternoons and devises ways to keep out anyone deemed "inappropriate." Stifled resentments come to a head when the French baroness in the penthouse dies, and two Jewish families in the building suspect the co-op board of more discrimination with regard to prospective buyers than might be legal.

Better Homes and Husbands is a stylish, richly woven novel about class and caste feuds, played out with ferocity and etiquette in a posh New York apartment building during the tumultuous period of social change between 1970 and 2000.

Author: Valerie Ann Leff
ISBN-10: 0312330634
ISBN-13: 9780312330637
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2005
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.61h x 5.58w x 0.67d

Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 06/01/2005 pg. 72