Park Avenue : The glamour and literary novel

You liked Gossip Girl ? Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of Vanities is on your bedside table as well as American Psycho by Ellis? No longer look for the book of your dreams, both  glamour and spiritual : you have found it !

Park Avenue, is a wildly New York story as we like them, a mix of financial intrigue, sequins and the worries of millionaires, from which Dirty Sexy Money drew the most inspiration to present the Darling clan.

We like : this really literary thriller, because don’t think this is chick-lit. For the intellectual-trendy support, you should know that Jay McInerney, the famous writer (the US Beigbeder) endorsed it: « A novel that you will not put down, that talks just as much about family, money and social ascension. Irresistible ! »

The pitch ? By marrying Merrill for love, le young lawyer Paul Ross was admitted into the Darling clan and all its privileges: an apartment on Park Avenue, a great job week-ends in the Hamptons and evenings with the glitzy socialites of Manhattan. But soon Wall Street crashes and the leading banks are faced with disaster. A scandal splashes the Darling family, propelling it in the media spotlight and Paul must choose his camp. Save his skin by betraying his wife and his kin or protecting them, no matter the cost.

Park Avenue

Released in bookshops on 31 January. 22€

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