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.
發表於2025-03-16
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坎迪斯.布什奈爾(Candace Bushnell)是英國作傢伊夫林.沃的粉絲,當這個來自康州小鎮的作者還是個姑娘時,曾對自己如此錶白:“如果我能成為伊夫林.沃,人生就此完美”。這麼多年後,如同她的偶像曾為英國沒落貴族譜寫瞭一麯叫做《Brideshead Revisited》(舊地重遊)挽歌,她也...
評分讀完《Sex and the City》的小說之後,去圖書館藉瞭作者Candace Bushnell的另一本長篇小說《One Fifth Avenue》,今天終於讀完瞭。在網絡上搜瞭一下,這一本2008年齣版的小說似乎還沒有中文版。的確,這本書描寫的內容對普通的中國讀者來說似乎沒有什麼共鳴,甚至連書名也的確...
評分An interesting novel and personally thinking not worse than Sex and the City. This is a more complete story, a city story.
評分 評分An interesting novel and personally thinking not worse than Sex and the City. This is a more complete story, a city story.
圖書標籤: 英文原版 美國 紐約 小說 Bushnell Candace 女性 外國文學
這本書太有魅力瞭
評分周六一口氣讀瞭一天,讀完瞭CANDACE BUSHNELL的新作。比起S&C來,這本書,更像中年人生活大全/指南。最後的結局都不錯,但不是童話明亮的那種,帶瞭很多無奈。不太喜歡。還是去讀劉易斯的愛麗絲好瞭。
評分姑且不論故事性,Candence的文筆可算是一流的瞭。平實流暢而又生動,好英語的典範。
評分當黃書看的
評分這本書太有魅力瞭
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