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Lisa Zeidner

"Zeidner's sprightly, intelligent and witty third novel (after Alexandra Freed) confirms her talent. Set in an accurately evoked Philadelphia and covering a one-year span in the lives of lovers Malcolm De Witt and Nora Worth, it chronicles the vicissitudes of their relationship and at the same time paints a perceptive picture of life among downwardly mobile yuppies--those who are entitled to the designation by virtue of social class and education, but who earn too little money to live its lifestyle. Malcolm is a sporadically employed architectural designer who has already failed at other careers and seems fated "to take artistic escalators in the wrong direction." Nora, who has abandoned her aspiration to be an artist, works as a TV food stylist and designs costumes for TV ads. The precarious state of his finances makes passive, reclusive Malcolm surly and unready for marriage, while...

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