All Is Vanity

Author: Schwarz, Christina

Publication:New York : Doubleday, 2002

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: Book Club

Condition: Used: Very Good

Description: No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. 368 pp. light edge wear to dust jacket; At once darkly comedic and moving, this witty exploration of female friendship, envy, and misguided ambition by the author of the number-one bestseller Drowning Ruth, deliciously satirizes the desire to shine in the world. In All is Vanity, Margaret and Letty, best friends since childhood and now living on opposite coasts, reach their mid-thirties and begin to chafe at their sense that they are not where they ought to be in life. Margaret, driven and overconfident, decides the best way to rectify this is to quit her job and whip out a literary tour de force. Frustrated almost immediately and humiliated at every turn, Margaret turns to Letty for support. But as Letty, a stay-at-home mother of four, begins to feel pressured to make a good showing in the upper-middle-class Los Angeles society into which her husband

Ref#: 006642

Subject: General Fiction

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