Maggie Darling: A Modern Romance (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780802141781)

She's the goddess of hearth and home, America's millionaire media maven of domesticity, Connecticut's most dazzling hostess, and everything in her world is perfect-except that Maggie Darling's picture-book life has suddenly gone off the rails. Amid the extravagant trappings of a Christmas Eve bash, she spies her swinish stockbroker husband slipping out of a powder room moments after his creamy young colleague. Matrimonial meltdown launches Maggie on a year of romance and misadventure, starting with an ill-fated fling with British rock star-turned-movie-actor Frederick Swann. Back home, a sniper is loose on the Merritt Parkway and a gang known as the Businessman's Lunch Posse is terrorizing patrons of Manhattan's four-star restaurants. Meanwhile, Maggie's son Hooper drops out of college and falls into the company of the sinister gangsta-rap group Chill Az Def. As calamity piles on catastrophe, can Maggie Darling brilliantly resolve the collapse of civilization as we wish we knew it?

Author: James Howard Kunstler
ISBN-10: 0802141781
ISBN-13: 9780802141781
Publisher: Grove Press
Language: English
Published: 04/05/2005
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.54w x 0.89d

Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 06/01/2005 pg. 75