Beautiful Bodies: A Novel
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0743434021 / Publisher: WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS, March 2003
Twenty years after they met, friends Jessie, Sue Carol, Nina, Lisbeth, and Martha come together in Jessie's New York City loft to celebrate Claire's pregnancy, only to find their evening may become an all-nighter due to a blizzard.
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Manhattan, the coldest night of the year -- six best friends rush to attend a celebration. Blown by wind and snow, the women arrive flushed, each caught in midadventure....Tonight's the night of nights -- to rejoice in a new lover, leave an unfaithful husband, or decide to have a baby on one's own. These "six in the city" profes-sional women fight for their female choices. Sparks and zingers fly across the table....Love lives, secrets, and friendships go up in candle flame. Who will win -- the romantics or the realists? How can working women triumph in such trying times? While the cell phones chime and the biological clocks rewind, the friends enact a timeless ceremony. Here is our urban "friends-as-family" generation --Beautiful Bodies is a dazzling comedy of manners in the grand tradition of Dorothy Parker and Mary McCarthy.
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