Product Description

The Right Address sears through the upper crust of New York’s glittering Park Avenue scene to dish the dirt on the ladies who lunch, the gents who club, and the desperate climbers who will stop at nothing to join the backstabbing, champagne-sipping, socialite-eat-socialite stratosphere.

When Melanie Sartomsky, wily Floridian flight attendant, snares billionaire divorcée Arthur “the coffin king” Korn, she is catapulted into the crème de la crème of Park Avenue society, where hiring the wrong decorator is tantamount to social suicide, and where, if you’re anyone, your personal assistant has a personal assistant. But Melanie quickly discovers that in the world of the rich and idle, malicious gossip is as de rigeur as owning twenty pairs of Manolo Blahniks. And despite her frenzied plunge into the charity circuit and the right dinner reservations, her neighbors are Givenchy-clad vultures who see her as nothing more than a reinvented trailer trollop. To make matters worse, when a snide society-rag journalist rakes her over the coals, Melanie’s reputation is toast.

Meanwhile, Melanie is not the only billionaire in the neighborhood coming unhinged. Kleptomania, adultery, plagiarism, and a grisly Harlem sex murder are just a few of the secrets swirling under the pedigreed patina of furs and emeralds on Park Avenue.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #485566 in Books
• Published on: 2005-03-15
• Released on: 2005-03-15
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 8.00" h x .65" w x 5.15" l, .70 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

From Publishers Weekly
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.
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From AudioFile
Melanie Korn, married to funeral home billionaire Arthur Korn, is trying desperately to fit into the upper echelon of New York City's elite social circles. But Melaine was born to poor parents and feels she must compete with the memory of Arthur's first wife and the richest of the idle rich. Through Melanie's character the authors reveal the petty and the vain, complete with scandal and deceit. Barbara Rosenblat uses her prodigious talents to portray the foibles and snobbery of wealthy Manhattanites. When Melanie discovers life outside of the Upper East side, Rosenblat adds backbone to her character and shows just how hard it is to be yourself when you want to live at the "right address." M.B.K. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Review
“Offers playful insight into a world … as catty as it is rarefied.” – Vogue

“A winning novel … If you love soiety, scandal, and stories about the rich and the richer, look no further.” – Bookreporter.com

“It’s impossible to resist the charms of this modern Manhattan fairy tale.” – People


From the Hardcover edition.