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Click to view full description | 1. | Goldsmith, Olivia Fashionably Late
HarperTorch October, 1999 Mass Market Pa used; excellent
Prominent designer Karen Kahn has just won the fashion industry's top achie vement award. As this witty, energetic and sometimes caustic novel quickly shows, however, it's all downhill from there. Karen's company, KK Inc., nee ds a huge infusion of cash to expand, and her handsome but evasive husband, Jeffrey, who handles the finances, pushes for a $50 million buyout by the megacorporation NormCo. But will Karen lose control of her designs? And how ethically does NormCo run its business? This new novel by the author of Th e First Wives Club works at every level. An engaging, behind-the-scenes loo k at the fashion industry, it lays bare the frenetic pace, cutthroat compet ition and chronic backbiting of the world of couture. Also an engrossing fa mily saga, it shows 40-year-old Karen, who is infertile, desperately trying to adopt a baby and, as an adopted child herself, searching for her birth mother. The narrative also offers a hilariously dark portrait of Karen's im mediate--and totally dysfunctional--family.
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| 2. | Goldsmith, Olivia The First Wives Club
Pocket September 1, 19 Paperback used: very good
From Publishers Weekly This empowering romp will delight and invigorate nearly any woman who's eve r stewed over a bad breakup. In late-'80s Manhattan, three well-to-do, midd le-aged divorcees are brought together by the suicide of a friend whose spo use, a bigoted Wall Street shark, abandoned her and later wed his ambitious protegee. Annie, a gentle, generous novelist, was dumped by her ad-exec hu sband for the woman who was their marriage counselor; Elise is a hard-drink ing actress whose ex now dates a young artist/heiress; and Brenda is a comp ulsive overeater who was left by a crass salesman she had helped succeed in the retail biz. Calling themselves the First Wives Club, the three attend society functions together and seek methods of winning not only revenge but the nobler reward of justice for themselves and, posthumously, for their f riend. As they stylishly, systematically and nonviolently foil the schemes of their callous former partners, they conquer their own weaknesses and fin d appreciative friends and lovers who complement rather than rule them. Gol dsmith's glitzy, addictive and credible first novel is certain to raise smi les--not to mention a few hackles. Major ad/promo; Literary Guild featured alternate; author tour; movie rights to Paramount. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to the Hardcover edition. From Library Journal Annie, Elise, and Brenda are all good wives who have helped their husbands achieve success. Now that their men are at the pinnacle, they find themselves dumped for younger, sleeker "trophy wives." So they band together to form the "First Wives Club" for the
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