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Beautiful Bodies

Beautiful Bodies

Beautiful Bodies

Laura Shaine Cunningham

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Editorial:
Simon & Schuster
Año de edición:
2003
Materia
Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9780743434027
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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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