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Turn of the Century - Hardcover

Andersen, Kurt

 
9780375500084: Turn of the Century

Synopsis

At the turn of the twenty-first century millennium, a hip, savvy New York couple--George, a network television producer, and Lizzie, a software executive--explores the mysteries of love, temptation, financial hijinks, the media, and capitalism, in a humorous comedy of manners

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About the Authors

<b>Kurt Andersen</b> is a columnist for The New Yorker. He was co-founder and editor of Spy magazine, and editor in chief of New York magazine. At Time, he was an award-winning writer on crime and politics, and for eight years the magazine's architecture and design critic. He has also created and produced several network television programs, and co-wrote Loose Lips, a satirical stage revue that has had productions in New York and Los Angeles. Turn of the Century is his first novel. Andersen lives with his wife and daughters in New York City.

Kurt Andersen is a columnist for The New Yorker.

From the Inside Flap

xciting as the next century, this is a novel of real life at our giddy, feverish, topsy-turvy edge of the millennium. <b>Turn of the Century</b> is a good old-fashioned novel about the day after tomorrow--an uproarious, exquisitely observed panorama of our world as the twentieth century morphs into the twenty-first, transforming family, marriage, and friendship and propelled by the supercharged global businesses and new technologies that make everyone's lives shake and spin a little faster.<br>        <br>As the year 2000 progresses, George Mactier and Lizzie Zimbalist, ten years married, are caught up in the whirl of their centrifugally accelerating lives. George is a TV producer for the upstart network MBC, launching a truly and weirdly groundbreaking new show that blurs the line between fact and fiction. Lizzie is a software entrepreneur dealing with the breakneck pleasures and pains of running her own company in an industry where the rules are re

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