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Wednesday 4 February 2009

One Fifth Avenue by Candace Bushnell

Official Synopsis:- One Fifth Avenue, the Art Deco beauty towering over one of Manhattan's oldest and most historically hip neighborhoods, is a one-of-a-kind address, the sort of building you have to earn your way into - one way or another. For the women in Candace Bushnell's new novel, One Fifth Avenue, this edifice is essential to the lives they've carefully established - or hope to establish. From the hedge fund king's wife to the aging gossip columnist to the free-spirited actress (a recent refugee from L.A.), each person's game plan for a rich life comes together under the soaring roof of this landmark building." This book is a modern-day story of old and new money, that same combustible mix that Edith Wharton mastered in her novels about New York's Gilded Age and F. Scott Fitzgerald illuminated in his Jazz Age tales. Many decades later, Bushnell's New Yorkers suffer the same passions as those fictional Manhattanites from eras past: They thirst for power, for social prominence, and for marriages that are successful - at least to the public eye. But Bushnell is an original, and One Fifth Avenue is so fresh that it reads as if sexual politics, real estate theft, and fortunes lost in a day have never happened before.

Personal Review:- This was an entertaining light read. It was not thought provoking but the characters were not as one dimensional as most chic-lit novels. Whilst something that I probably wouldn't re-read it was entertaining enough when being read. The plot was not creative nor unique in any way and simply put about different people and their lives and how it interweaves together as they live in the same building, some parts of the story is a bit unbelievable but nonetheless if your into chic-lit it's worth a read. 

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