Morningside Heights: A Novel - Hardcover

Mendelson, Cheryl

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375508368 ISBN 13: 9780375508363

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2003

Synopsis

Long-time residents of Morningside Heights, a once marginal neighborhood attracting the attention of Wall Street types in search of a good investment and more space, are faced with dramatic changes to their community as increasing prices and a rising cost of living begin to force this group of artists, musicians, and intellectuals out of the area. A first novel. 40,000 first printing.

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Review:

Praise for Cheryl Mendelson and Home Comforts

"Cheryl Mendelson is the author of the strangely compelling new book Home Comforts, [which contains] as promising a germ of a domestic novella as might be found anywhere."
--The New Yorker

"It's an extraordinary achievement that has no peer in this century and may well have none in the next. A lawyer with a degree in philosophy, Mendelson writes with grace, wit, and exactitude on a staggering range of material."
--Newsweek

"Although it's a reference work, Home Comforts packs the punch of a major novel."
--Brill's Content

"Wildly comprehensive...full of revelations...What is most interesting about this book is Ms. Mendelson's point of view."
--The New York Times

"Not only illuminating and practical but also, most surprisingly, crisply entertaining."
--The Wall Street Journal

From the Hardcover edition.

About the Author:

Cheryl Mendelson received her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Rochester and her J.D. from Harvard Law School. She has practiced law in New York City and taught philosophy at Purdue and Columbia universities. She is the author of Home Comforts. She lives in New York City, and this is her first novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0375508368
• ISBN 13: 9780375508363
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 326