Stephanie Clifford

It's 2006 in the Manhattan of the young and privileged, and a new generation of heirs and strivers are jockeying for social power and discovering that class, especially on the Upper East Side, still holds sway. At 26, Evelyn Beegan is the product of new money, propelled by her social-climbing mother through an elite prep school, a posh college, and into Manhattan. Evelyn has always managed to stay just on the periphery of this world her mother so desperately wants her to become a part of. But when she takes a job at a new social networking site aimed at her very elite peers, she's forced to leverage her few connections to work her way to the front of the pack. With the help of her prep school friends, Evelyn goes from lush "camps" in the Adirondacks and "cottages" in Newport, to Southampton weekends and clubs thick with socialites and Wall Street types, eventually befriending target #1, Camilla Rutherford--a young woman who is a regular on the front page of every society blog. In order to be accepted by this rarefied set, Evelyn must be seen as someone with established old money. Her lies start small, but quickly grow, and as she relentlessly elbows her way up the social ladder, the ground underneath her begins to give way.

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Everybody Rise

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Everybody Rise, a rich and riveting novel with the exquisite historical detail and evocative settings of The Cold Millions and Great Circle that tells the story of one unforgettable woman's rise in country and western music. It's 1980, and Lillian Waters is hitting the road for the very last time. Jaded from her years in the music business, perpetually hungover, and diagnosed with career-ending vocal problems, Lillian cobbles together a nationwide farewell tour featuring some old hands from her early days playing honky-tonk bars in Washington State and Nashville, plus a few new ones. She yearns to feel the rush of making live music one more time and bask in the glow of a packed house before she makes the last, and most important, stop on the tour: the farm she left behind at age ten and the sister she is finally ready to confront about an agonizing betrayal in their childhood. As the novel crisscrosses eras, moving between Lillian's youth--the Depression, the Second World War, the rise of Nashville--and her middle-aged life in 1980, we see her striving to build a career in the male-dominated world of country music, including the hard choices she makes as she tries to redefine music, love, aging, and womanhood on her own terms. Nearing her final tour stop, Lil is forced to confront those choices and how they shaped her life. Would a different version of herself have found the happiness and success that has eluded her? When she reaches her Washington hometown for her very last show, though, she'll undergo a reckoning with the past that forces her to reconsider her entire life story. Exploring one unforgettable woman's creativity, ambition, and sacrifices in a world--and an art form--made for men, The Farewell Tour asks us to consider how much of our past we can ever leave behind.

The Farewell Tour

Farewell Tour

Evelyn Beegan esta cansada de viver na sombra da alta-sociedade de Manhattan. A m?e, obcecada em pertencer aos circulos "certos", engendra plano atras de plano, em v?o. Pois embora a familia seja bem-sucedida, o seu dinheiro e demasiado novo e as normas sociais s?o demasiado rigidas: os Beegan podem ser tolerados mas nunca ser?o verdadeiramente aceites. Aos vinte e seis anos, Evelyn quer simplesmente ter uma vida pacata. Mas - ironia das ironias - ao ficar sem emprego, n?o tem alternativa sen?o trabalhar para uma rede social da elite. Uma especie de Facebook exclusivo para multimilionarios que a obriga a frequentar o meio snob que tanto queria evitar. A m?e fica (finalmente) orgulhosa. E na roda- viva de bailes, chas e regatas, ate mesmo Evelyn acaba por se deixar ofuscar pelo glamour da fina flor nova-iorquina. Mas a ascens?o social tem um preco. E ela n?o tarda a perceber os sacrificios que tera de fazer para se manter no topo da hierarquia. Agora que chegou t?o longe, estara tambem disposta a arriscar a alma?

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