New York, New York: Riverhead Books, 2002. Softcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Used Book: Trade Paperback Slight shelf wear and lean, with a crease to the front hinge and rubbing to the lower spine end. Faint indentations to the rear cover, with sticker ghosting/residue over the barcode.

Synopsis

National Bestseller The story of an obsessive love affair between a woman and an apartment. The publication of her sexy, offbeat, riotous first novel, Going Down , won Jennifer Belle comparisons from everyone from Dorothy Parker and Lorrie Moore to J. D. Salinger and Liz Phair. In High Maintenance , Belle is back with another brilliantly twisted New York story that is as funny, sad, painful, ridiculous, wild, daring, and lovable as its predecessor. Set in the manic world of New York real estate, High Maintenance is the story of Liv Kellerman, a young woman who's just left her husband and, more important, their fabulous penthouse apartment with its Empire State Building view. On her own for the first time in her life, she relocates to a crumbling Greenwich Village hovel and contemplates her next move. Before long she finds her true calling: selling real estate. With her native eye for prime properties and an ability to lie with a straight face, Liv finds success and soon is swimming with the sharks-the hardcore, cutthroat brokers who'll do anything to close a deal. Along the way she picks up a maniacally ardent architect who likes to bite her, a few hilarious bosses, strange and exasperating clients, and a gun, and brings them with her on her search for the one thing she's really after: a home. Belle's gift for creating strange and winning characters and her acute observations of both the absurd and the poignant in everyday life are the hallmarks of her fiction. High Maintenance is generous and unsparing, tough and exciting and terrifically smart—a hot new property on the market.

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Bookseller: Adventures Underground (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 890088
Title: High Maintenance
Author: Belle, Jennifer (Author)
Format/Binding: Softcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 157322930X
ISBN 13: 9781573229302
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Place of Publication: New York, New York
Date Published: 2002
Keywords: General Fiction

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Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Trade Paperback: Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Hinge: The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.