01732cam a2200277 4500 1261860322 TxAuBib 050720s2006||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2005044962 9781400042319 1400042313 9781400042319 (OCoLC)1846 DLC DLC IG# BAKER OCO BUR TxAuBib Wasserstein, Wendy. Elements of style : a novel / Wendy Wasserstein. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 2006. 307 p. ; 25 cm. A comic novel about New York's urban gentry living in a post-9/11 world--the arbiters of fashion and the doyennes of charity balls; about the rich and the nouveau rich(er), the glamorous and the desperate to be. We meet Francesca Weissman, the Upper East Side pediatrician rated number one by Manhattan magazine, who takes us into the upper strata of privilege and aspiration (she's originally from Queens with a father in hosiery); Samantha Acton, thoroughbred descendant of Old New York, who defines the social order in the great tradition of Mrs. Astor and Babe Paley; Judy Tremont from Modesto, California, daughter of a cop--her life's work, her obsession, is New York society and its richest families; Barry Santorini, Republican, moviemaker, winner of twelve Oscars, and his wife, the Italian supermarket heiress and former media rep for Giorgio Armani; and many more.--From publisher description. Female friendship Fiction. Women pediatricians Fiction. Upper East Side (New York, N.Y) Fiction. Satire. Humorous fiction.