Riverhead Books, 2001. Softcover. Near Fine. 2001 Riverhead Books. First Edition. Advance Reading Copy. Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. Light surface rubbing at top of spine and top corner. Date stamp 'MAR--2001' on top page edges. Small light stain on front page edges. 372 pages.

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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Seller: SmarterRat Books (US)
Seller's Inventory #: 1155
Title: High Maintenance
Author: Belle, Jennifer
Format/Binding: Softcover
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Date Published: 2001
Keywords: Fiction,ARC
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction; ARC;

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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....
Reading Copy: Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
Fine: A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
First Edition: In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
Uncorrected Proof: An uncorrected proof is a printed copy of a book that needs to be reviewed for errors and corrections. They are released prior...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.