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"Bushnell...broadens her scope in her latest ode to New York strivers and sophisticates...The fun lies in the author's acute observations about everything from real estate envy to midlife crises."
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"Where [Bushnell] goes, her army of stilletoed fans follow. You gotta love it: the conflict, the secrets-telling, the peek into the world of the rich and valueless. It all adds up to a juicy summer read."
--New York Post

"One Fifth Avenue is all things an escapist read she be: quick and wicked and wry. There's a blown-out bitch to root against, a star-crossed couple to root for, and a Tim Gunn-style best friend who deserves his own book. Great, guiltless fun."
--Entertainment Weekly

From one of the most consistently astute and engaging social commentators of our day comes another look at the tough and tender women of New York City--this time, through the lens of where they live.

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.

Acutely observed and mercilessly witty, One Fifth Avenue 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.

From Sex and the City through four successive novels, Bushnell has revealed a gift for tapping into the zeitgeist of any New York minute and, as one critic put it, staying uncannily "just the slightest bit ahead of the curve." And with each book, she has deepened her range, but with a light touch that makes her complex literary accomplishments look easy. Her stories progress so nimbly and ring so true that it can seem as if anyone might write them--when, in fact, no one writes novels quite like Candace Bushnell. Fortunately for us, with One Fifth Avenue, she has done it again.

What Customers Say About One Fifth Avenue CD:

I've been wanting to read this book for a while and the minute I got my hand on this book, I couldnt stop reading until it was done. I felt like I wanted more after it was done and I was still thinking about what could be. It was a great read and Candace Bushnell nails it on the head every single time. I recommend this book to anyone(mostly girls) who would just like a fun read.

It's popcorn, but it's also not shallow. I think the novel works because it is full of both superficial guilty pleasure and sharp critical observations. What I liked best about the novel is how Bushnell reminds the reader that TMZ and Perez Hilton didn't invent scandal.gossip, social power plays and social climbing have been around for a long time, and are perhaps even a fundamental component of any social scene (in this case wealthy, downtown NYC). The theme, I think, is that although the players might change, the play stays the same in the NYC rat race. Not a literary classic, but easy juicy reading. So it goes with this particular set of characters, not all likeable, but that's the point. Overall this book was enjoyable. There are some real barbs about age and aging in general -- the arrogance of youth, the strains of success and failure in middle age, and the inevitable process of aging.

Bushnell really goes through the privileges, prejudices, aspirations and problems of these very New York City characters, whose lives intersect only because they live in the same building. (And anyone who has ever lived in NYC will surely report how oddly familial and important your neighbors can be in your existence -- in both good and bad ways). That's the point, the story itself is just a light and entertaining way to explore the good and bad realities of social interaction and strategy.

This one is no different: the same grasping, brittle, unhappy people constantly searching for something bigger.better.MORE than what they have. I keep thinking there must be a reason Ms. Bushnell's books are popular, but I've read most of them and still can't figure it out. These are unlikable characters, and I've found the same to be true for the other books I've read by this author. I don't think I'll be reading any more of her work.

I always read her books and I don't know why. I haven't enjoyed reading a book since Four Blonds. This book is hard to get into and it's got a lot of characters that come out of nowhere. I actually don't even remember how this book ends.I wouldn't waste my time.

I have read every book that Candace Bushnell has written - she is a cut above the average - she speaks the language of our generation and creates characters that stick with you long after the last page.