From the author of Sex in the City, Candace Bushnell has written this book focusing on a cast of characters living in a luxurious apartment building (One Fifth Avenue) in NYC. When an elderly matron of society dies, a backbiting scramble for her penthouse apartment follows. In the end, Annalisa and her hedge-funder husband, Paul Rice, land the lavish pad, pissing off the building's rivalries. There's Billy Litchfield, an art dealer who lives off the wealthy; Mindy and James Gooch, and their 13-year-old Sam, a bitter and green-with-envy family wishing for the wealth that all their neighbors seem to have; gossip columnist Enid Merle and her screenwriter nephew, Philip Oakland, who struggles with his own mortality and lost love; actress Schiffer Diamond, who lands a hit TV series and moves back to her One Fifth apartment after years of being away. These stories and antics that follow are page turning and fascinating.
I really, really liked this book. It made me want to live in NYC (with the stipulation that I had loads of money and lived the same life of luxury that many of the characters lived). The stories of the characters and my wish to see the antagonist “get his” kept me turning the pages. I would certainly read another of Candace Bushnell’s books. Worthy of four stars, certainly.
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