First published 2008
The residents of One Fifth Avenue live in Manhattan's most coveted Art Deco building, where old money meets new ambition. A hedge fund king's wife schemes to maintain her social position while an aging gossip columnist clings to her fading influence. A free-spirited actress has fled Los Angeles seeking reinvention in this exclusive address. Each woman believes the prestigious building will secure the life she wants. They navigate sexual politics and real estate machinations as fortunes shift overnight. Power struggles erupt between longtime residents and ambitious newcomers. The women pursue social prominence and marriages that look successful from the outside. Their desires for wealth and status drive them to compete within the building's elegant walls. Bushnell reveals how these modern New Yorkers mirror the social climbers of earlier eras, driven by the same hungers for acceptance and influence that have always defined Manhattan society.
Genres: american-fiction, contemporary, 21st-century, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: power-dynamics, social-commentary
Setting: Manhattan, One Fifth Avenue
Period: 21st-century
433 pages · Hardcover · Voice