{"product_id":"2940169121674","title":"Elements of Style: A Novel","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47097751142640,"sku":"2940169121674","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169121674_p0.jpg?v=1763673374","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169121674","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}