One Sunday Morning: A Novel - Hardcover

Ephron, Amy

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9780060585525: One Sunday Morning: A Novel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060585528 ISBN 13: 9780060585525

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 2005

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Amy Ephron navigates the social contradictions of New York society, a world in which freedom was celebrated even while Prohibition and the strictest social conventions were in force. She brings to life this time and place through the stories of five socialites whose lives are irrevocably changed because of gossip, indiscretion, secrets, and betrayal.

Four women at a bridge party in the elegant Gramercy Park Hotel see a beautiful young woman, whom they all know, leaving a nearby hotel with a man who is not her husband. The sight of twenty-year-old Lizzie Carswell with Billy Holmes is shocking and potentially ruinous, and though they do not know the whole story and despite their mutual promise to keep what they've seen to themselves, it is only a matter of time before one of them talks -- with heartbreaking consequences for them all.

One Sunday Morning is a drama of the strictures of polite society tragically coming to conflict with the liberated spirit of the Jazz Age. With all the romance of Gatsby's New York and the seduction of Josephine Baker's Paris, Ephron's tale is compelling all the way to its surprising and satisfying ending.

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Review:

"An exquisite, Edith Wharton-esque novel" -- Newhouse News Service

"A jewel of a book." -- Reader's Digest

"A jewel of a book."--Reader's Digest

"An elegant fable . . . a charming package, a smooth blend of period romance and contemporary wisdom."--Miami Herald

"An exquisite, Edith Wharton-esque novel"--Newhouse News Service

"Ephron has written another historical novel destined to please her fans. . . . it will entertain you."--Seattle Times

"Ephron writes beautifully . . . a Jazz Age take on Sex and the City."--Entertainment Weekly

"Ephron maintains the suspense through this evocative, smartly paced novel of romantic intrigue."--People

"Amy Ephron is our Edith Wharton. . . . [she] is a master storyteller"--Bookreporter.com

"Book clubs will treasure the precisely rendered atmosphere in this jewel of a novel."--Chattanooga Times Free Press

About the Author:

Amy Ephron is the bestselling author of the acclaimed novels One Sunday Morning and A Cup of Tea. Her magazine pieces and essays have appeared in Vogue; Saveur; House Beautiful; the National Lampoon; the Los Angeles Times; the Huffington Post; Defamer; her own online magazine, One for the Table; and various other print and online publications. She recently directed a short film, Chloe@3AM, which was featured at the American Cinematheque's Focus on Female Directors Short Film Showcase in January 2011. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Alan Rader, and any of their five children who happen to drop in.

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