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Turn of the Century

by Kurt Andersen

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The millennium is here.  BarbieWorld has opened in Vegas. Charles Manson's parole hearing is on live TV.  And George and Lizzie are a Manhattan power couple with three kids in private school and take-out from Hiroshima Boy waiting at the door.  Lizzie owns a software start-up.  George is a TV producer.  With cell phones tickling their thighs and gossip buzzing in their ears, their future couldn't be brighter.  Until, that is, Lizzie cuts a deal with George's boss and gets an office twenty-one floors above her husband's...  Until all the glitter and the hype threaten to destroy George's and Lizzie's sanity and their marriage...  Until the only thing that can save them is a little understanding--at a time when everyone is talking but no one can hear a thing.

In his brash, brilliant first novel, media insider Kurt Andersen casts a penetrating eye on our giddy, media-obsessed era.  With a keen sense of irony and a storyteller's grace, the co-founder of Spy magazine weaves a tale that is at once a biting satire of America in the near future and a wickedly incisive portrait of marriage, family, love, and friendship.  A crackling, cybercharged joyride through our millennium, Turn of the Century is pure, eye-popping entertainment.

Synopsis:

Set in the year 2000, "Turn of the Century" is a panoramic, hyper-realistic, up-to-the-second comedy of manners that depicts marriage, family, friendship, and business as they are conducted in our giddy, anxious time, amplified by Andersen's explosive writing and dead-on wit.

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ISBN:
9780385335041
Author:
Anderson, Kurt
Publisher:
Delta
Author:
Anderson, Kurt
Subject:
General
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
New york (n.y.)
Subject:
Businesspeople
Subject:
Married people
Subject:
Los angeles (calif.)
Subject:
Domestic fiction
Subject:
General Fiction
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Literature-A to Z
Copyright:
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Publication Date:
20000731
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
672
Dimensions:
9.23x6.12x1.45 in. 1.53 lbs.

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