The Right Address

The Right Address
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مشارکت: عنوان و توضیح کوتاه هر کتاب را ترجمه کنید این ترجمه بعد از تایید با نام شما در سایت نمایش داده خواهد شد.
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فرمت کتاب

audiobook

تاریخ انتشار

2004

نویسنده

Bernadette Dunne

شابک

9781415904350
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AudioFile Magazine
The right address being the East Side of New York City and the right people being the denizens thereof, we meet Melanie and her husband, who are rich enough to live at the right address but who do not have blood blue enough to be accepted by its high society. Of the many flavors and vocal ranges that Bernadette Dunne offers to add color to the written word, her Spanish accent is quite the juiciest. Some of her whimsical portrayals are refreshing and picturesque in the midst of the extended cast of characters. Dunne may feel urged to make each person singularly different from another, but in so doing she puts unwelcome colorations into her own lyrical and pretty voice, losing the atmosphere of realism the listener needs to accept the story. J.P. (c) AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine

Publisher's Weekly

April 5, 2004
Money can't buy style, learns the social climber protagonist of this novel. Nor can money write an interesting book. Despite their claims to an insider's view, authors Karasyov and Kargman, who met at the Upper East Side's elite Spence School, have written an achingly dull novel about a nouveau riche heroine with trailer park origins who aspires to the New York jet set. Melanie Korn, neé Sartomsky, approaches the social world of the superrich upon her marriage to billionaire Arthur Korn, who's cornered the market on caskets, funeral homes and retirement homes—but true acceptance eludes her. Although she lives with her husband at "741 Park Avenue, the most coveted building in all of New York City," the old money crowd refuses to warm to the former stewardess. Melanie kisses up to one stereotype after another, including the catty town gossips, the "grande dame of Park Avenue," her philandering husband and the beautiful heiress. As they hand McDonald's applications to the homeless, attend charity balls and angle for attention from the society papers, these Upper East Siders reveal their true lives: they shop, they lunch, they bitch. With its awkward prose, unsympathetic heroine and clichéd supporting cast, this attempt at a scathing social critique doesn't measure up to its predecessors in the skewer-the-socialite genre, though undoubtedly there will be some well-heeled readers seeking to ferret out the characters' true identities. (Apr.)

Forecast:
Karasyov and Kargman, who grew up on the Upper East Side and wrote and produced the film
Intern, will drum up publicity with an eight-city author tour plus national media attention and advertising. The tedium of the book, though, will disappoint readers looking for another
Nanny Diaries.




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